2. Are there here those whom God has reconciled to himself?
[How can you ever adore him as you ought to do ? Can you reflect on the means he has used for your redemption ; can you reflect on his laying your iniquities on the person of his only dear Son, and not bless him ? The wonder is, how you can find a moment for any other employment ; and that you are not, like the lame man whom Peter and John healed, leaping, and dancing, and praising God every day and all the day long.
But, if this were the frame of your mind, I should still point you to a more excellent way of glorifying your heavenly Bene- factor. You have seen that the Lord Jesus, in dying for you, sought " to present you to God holy, and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight :" let his object then in redeeming you be the one object at which you shall aim through the remainder of your lives. And remember, that it is not suffi- cient that you be unblameable and unreprovable before men ; you must be so " in the sight of God " also, even of that " God who searcheth the heart, and trieth the reins." Let your secret walk with God be such as he will approve. Let your every temper, and disposition, and habit, mark the friend- ship that subsists between God and you. And let every day be so spent, as if at the close of it you expected your soul to be required of you, and to be presented by your Saviour to your reconciled God.]