Jan. 3
REST ON A PROMISE
"The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it." Gen. 28:13
No promise is of private interpretation: it belongs not to one
saint, but to all believers. If, my brother, thou canst in faith lie
down upon a promise, and take thy rest thereon, it is thine. Where
Jacob "lighted," and tarried, and rested, there he took possession.
Stretching his weary length upon the ground, with the stones of that
place for his pillows, he little fancied that he was thus entering
into ownership of the land; and yet so it was. He saw in his dream
that wondrous ladder which for all true believers unites earth and
heaven; and surely where the foot of the ladder stood he must have a
right to the soil, for otherwise he could not reach the divine
stairway. All the promises of God are Yea and Amen in Christ Jesus;
and as He is ours, every promise is ours if we will but lie down upon
it in restful faith.
Come, weary one, use thy Lord's words as thy pillows. Lie down in
peace. Dream only of Him. Jesus is thy ladder of light. See the angels
coming and going upon Him between thy soul and thy God; and be sure
that the promise is thine own God-given portion, and that it will not
be robbery for thee to take it to thyself, as spoken specially to
thee.