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Devotion: Morning and Evening Morning Title: Why Are We Different? Evening Title: The Great Physician Do you enjoy this devotional? Send it on to a friend! ____________________________________________________________ Morning: Why Are We Different? "The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron." --2 Samuel 15:23 David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God's own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord 's Anointed, and the Lord's Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At sorrow's gates the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their heads, wherefore then should we complain as though some strange thing had happened unto us? The KING of kings himself was not favoured with a more cheerful or royal road. He passed over the filthy ditch of Kidron, through which the filth of Jerusalem flowed. God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been temp ted in all points like as we are. What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad bereavement, a slanderous reproach, a dark foreboding? The King has passed over all these. Is it bodily pain, poverty, persecution, or contempt? Over each of these Kidrons the King has gone before us. "In all our afflictions He was afflicted." The idea of strangeness in our trials
must be banished at once and for ever, for He who
is the Head of all saints, knows by experience
the grief which we think so peculiar. All the
citizens
;of Zion must be free of the Honourable
Company of Mourners, of which the Prince
Immanuel
is Head and Captain.
Notwithstanding the abasement of David, he yet returned in triumph to his city, and David's Lord arose victorious from the grave; let us then be of good courage, for we also shall win the day. We shall yet with joy draw water out of the wells of salvation, though now for a season we have to pass by the noxious streams of sin and sorrow. Courage, soldiers of the Cross, the King himself triumphed after going over Kidro n, and so shall you. Evening: The Great Physician "Who healeth all thy diseases." --Psalm 103:3 Humbling as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let us think of Him awhile to-night. His cures are very speedy--there is life in a look at Him; His cures are radical--He strikes at the centre of the disease; and hence, His cures are sure and certain. He <R>never fails, and the disease never returns. There
is no relapse where Christ heals; no fear that
His patients should be merely patched up for
a
season, He makes new men of them: a new heart
also does He give them, and a right spirit
does
He put with them. He is well skilled in all
diseases. Physicians generally have some
specialite. Although they may know a little about almost all our pains and ills, there is usually one disease which they have studied above all others; but Jesus Christ is thoroughly acquainted with the whole of&nb sp;human nature. He is as much at home with one sinner as with another, and never
yet did He meet with an out-of-the-way case that
was difficult to Him.
He has had extraordinary complications of strange diseases to deal with, but He has known exactly
with one glance of His eye how to treat the
patient. He is the only universal doctor; and
the
medicine He gives is the only true catholicon,
healing in every instance. Whatever our
spiritual
malady may be, we should apply at once to this
Divine Physician. There is no
brokenness of heart
which Jesus cannot bind up. "His blood cleanseth
from all sin."
We have but to think of the
myriads who have been delivered from all sorts of
diseases through the power and virtue of His touch, and we shall joyfully put ourselves in His hands. We trust Him, and sin dies; we love Him, and grace lives; we wait for Him and grace is strengthened; we see Him as he is, and grace is perfected for ever. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mailing List Jesus-Net Ministry Indonesia - JNM - Daftar : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keluar : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posting: jesus-net@yahoogroups.com JNM Mailing list are managed by : Indonesian Pentecostal Revival Fellowship (IPRF) Denver, USA (or GPdI Denver) If you have any comment or suggestion about this mailing list, to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or If you want to contact IPRF Denver USA, to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site : http://www.iprf.us -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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