Morning, October 28
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“I have chosen you out of the world.”
John 15:19
Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are
made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to
dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most
heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest cordial.
Those who doubt the doctrines of grace, or who cast them into the
shade, miss the richest clusters of Eshcol; they lose the wines on
the lees well refined, the fat things full of marrow. There is no
balm in Gilead comparable to it. If the honey in Jonathan’s wood when but touched enlightened the eyes , this is honey which will enlighten your heart to love and learn the mysteries of the kingdom of God. Eat, and fear
not a surfeit; live upon this choice dainty, and fear not that it
will be too delicate a diet. Meat from the King’s table will hurt none of his courtiers. Desire to have your mind
enlarged, that you may comprehend more and more the eternal, everlasting,
discriminating love of God. When you have mounted as high as election,
tarry on its sister mount, the covenant of grace. Covenant engagements
are the munitions of stupendous rock behind which we lie entrenched;
covenant engagements with the surety, Christ Jesus, are the quiet
resting-places of trembling spirits.
“His oath, his covenant, his blood,
Support me in the raging flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
This still is all my strength and stay.”
If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised
that he would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward
of the travail of his soul; then, my soul, till God himself shall
be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe.
When David danced before the ark, he told Michal that election made
him do so. Come, my soul, exult before the God of grace and leap for
joy of heart.