BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 32
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s
life for his friends. JOHN 15:13
The precious Lord Jesus Christ is our friend.
Oh, let us seek to realize this! It is not merely a religious
phrase or statement, but truly He is our friend. He is the
Brother “born of adversity,” the one who “sticks closer
than a brother.” Who will never leave and never forsake
us . . . He is willing not merely to grant this for a few
months, or a year or two, but to the very end of our
earthly pilgrimage. David, in Psalm 23 says: “Yea,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.” Oh,
how precious this is. For this “Lovely One” is coming
again, and soon. Soon He will come again; and then He
will take us home and there we shall be forever with Him.
Oh, how precious is that bright and glorious prospect.
Here again the practical point is to appropriate this to
ourselves. “He is coming to take me—poor, guilty,
worthless, hell-deserving me—He is coming to take me
to Himself.” And to the degree in which we enter into
these glorious things, the joys of heaven have already
commenced!
G E O R G E M U L L E R ( 1 4 8 3 - 1 5 8 6 )
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