Psalm
91:9 Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the
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The Israelites in the wilderness were
continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar stayed its
motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, ere the morning
sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and
the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the
narrow defiles of the mountain, up the hillside, or along the
arid waste of the wilderness. They had scarcely time to rest a
little before they heard the sound of "Away! this is not your
rest; you must still be onward journeying towards Canaan!"
They were never long in one place. Even wells and palm trees
could not detain them. Yet they had an abiding home in their
God, His cloudy pillar was their roof-tree, and its flame by
night their household fire. They must go onward from place to
place, continually changing, never having time to settle, and
to say, "Now we are secure; in this place we shall dwell."
"Yet," says Moses, "though we are always changing, Lord, thou
hast been our dwe lling-place throughout all generations." The
Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich
to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well
to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be
distressed-but there is no change with regard to his
relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me
to-day. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let
prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be
withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing
of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation whereunto I
can continually resort." I am a pilgrim in the world, but at
home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a
quiet habitation.
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Micah
5:2 Whose goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting. |
The Lord Jesus had goings forth for
His people as their representative before the throne, long
before they appeared upon the stage of time. It was "from
everlasting" that He signed the compact with His Father, that
He would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony
for agony, and death for death, in the behalf of His people;
it was "from everlasting" that He gave Himself up without a
murmuring word. That from the crown of His head to the sole of
His foot He might sweat great drops of blood, that He might be
spit upon, pierced, mocked, rent asunder, and crushed beneath
the pains of death. His goings forth as our Surety were from
everlasting. Pause, my soul, and wonder! Thou hast goings
forth in the person of Jesus "from everlasting." Not only when
thou wast born into the world did Christ love thee, but His
delights were with the sons of men before there were any sons
of men. Often did He think of them; from everlasting to
everlasting He had set His a ffection upon them. What! my
soul, has He been so long about thy salvation, and will not He
accomplish it? Has he from everlasting been going forth to
save me, and will He lose me now? What! has He carried me in
His hand, as His precious jewel, and will He now let me slip
from between His fingers? Did he choose me before the
mountains were brought forth, or the channels of the deep were
digged, and will He reject me now? Impossible! I am sure He
would not have loved me so long if He had not been a
changeless Lover. If He could grow weary of me, He would have
been tired of me long before now. If He had not loved me with
a love as deep as hell, and as strong as death, He would have
turned from me long ago. Oh, joy above all joys, to know that
I am His everlasting and inalienable inheritance, given to Him
by His Father or ever the earth was! Everlasting love shall be
the pillow for my head this night.
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