I Myself Will Help You!

What is more helpless than a child without its mother's hand! Reader, what is more helpless than you without Christ! You can neither stand nor walk alone; but "God, who takes hold of your right hand, says to you: Do not fear, I will help you!" 

He will help you against sin; against Satan; against the world; against your own evil heart. He will help you when you are weary; when you are downcast; in the time of trial; and in the hour of temptation. He will help you to understand; He will help you to pray; He will help you to fight; He will help you to avoid the snares; He will help you to despise the vanities of this poor world. 

Ah, my fellow-sinner, this help is promised, because you need it all. What a world of temptation, sin, and danger what a world of darkness and confusion you live in! There is none to help you, none to teach you, none to lead you on your way but Jehovah Jesus. Do not be afraid! He will hold you by the right hand, saying, "I will help you!" 

Do you say, "The way is long, and I am weary. The road is dark, and I have no light. Temptations are many, how shall I resist them? I need grace, where can I find it? Oh, how shall I persevere?" Afflicted soul! Is there no Helper? Is there none to pity? Is there none to guide? 

Where is your heavenly Father? Where is Jesus? Where is the Comforter? Where is He who feeds His flock like a Shepherd; who gathers His lambs in His arms, and carries them close to His heart? (Isaiah 40:11) Where is He who has promised to hold you by the right hand, saying, "Do not be afraid—I will help you!" 

[George Mylne] 

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Psalm 121:1-2 ... I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Psalm 146:5 ... Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Isaiah 41:13 ...  For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. ❤

Fear Not!!

Child of God, dismiss your doubts; put away your fears.
Jesus says, "Fear not, you are Mine!"

Mine by creation,

Mine by redemption,
Mine by right,
Mine by purchase,
Mine affection,
Mine by choice,
Mine for life,
Mine in death,
Mine for time,
Mine for eternity!

In all seasons, under all circumstances, you are Christ's!
As a father speaking to his child.
As a master speaking to his servant.
As a husband speaking to his wife.
As a brother speaking to a brother.
As a friend speaking to a friend.
As a potter speaking to the thing, he has made.
As a buyer speaking to the thing, he has bought.
Jesus says to you, "Fear not, you are Mine!"

[George Mylne]

Isaiah 43:1 ... But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. ❤

Nothing On Earth Can Satisfy the Soul!

The senses are but servants to the soul. The soul desires to look and sets the eye to see. The soul desires to hear and sets the ear to hearken. The soul is never wearied. It listens to sweet music, and lingers, longing still for more. When had the soul enough of a sweet flower? When was it ever filled to overflowing with viewing the masterpieces of nature? Nothing on earth can satisfy the soul! It leaves its pleasures with a craving for more. It sighs to increase its satisfactions. It grieves to think how limited all its joys are. 

Oh, there is a longing in the soul; a restless appetite to see and hear, to grasp, to understand; a stretching forth of thought; a yearning principle which spurns the restrictions of the senses. And yet (such is the tribute due to sinful human nature) sense, in its feebleness, keeps down the soul. The soul, with all its energy, cannot overpower sense! How sad, how humbling the condition of fallen man! Yet, child of God, you have no cause to mourn. 

Gifted by grace with higher faculties, you have that with which to fill your soul to the full. By faith you see, hear, and taste better things you see Jesus on the throne of God. By faith you see the "sea of glass," and hear "the voice of harpers harping with their harps." You see Heavenly and eternal realities by faith! My soul, why linger after the things of time when better sights, and better sounds invite you? Or why lament your straitened means, with heavenly powers so unlimited? Then let your eye repose on Jesus! The more you look at Him the longer will you look. The more you look the more will be your power to gaze upon Him. The more you commune with Him the sweeter shall you find His company. Speak much to Jesus you shall not speak in vain. The name of Jesus shall be to you "as beds of spices, and sweet flowers." (Song of Solomon 6:2) 

The whispers of the Spirit, telling of grace and peace, shall ever and always refresh your ear! My soul, these pleasures shall never fail you! Not like the music, that was, and is not with no hand to sweep the chords! Not like the feast of yesterday which is now gone forever! Not like the flowers that once were fragrant and now are fragrant no longer! Not like the beautiful landscape which you have left behind! Your Savior, Friend, and Comforter is ever with you now and to all eternity the same!

[George Mylne]

Ecclesiastes 1:8 ...  All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ❤

Meditate!!

We live in stirring days, when deeds are everything when closet work is often neglected for active business, and little time is given to meditation. Yet, with more thought and prayer wholesome activity would be greater in the end, and all our actions more successful.  Time is not lost, which is spent in meditation, in searching wisdom's ways, and seeking out profound realities. There is one who often meditate and yet accomplishes much. There is another who hastens and yet does little. 

None works so heartily, nor reaps so fully as he whose wits are sharpened by prayer and meditation. Reading either Scripture or Christian books, apart from meditation, does little good. It is much the same as not digesting what you eat, this only starves the soul. How many read the Bible thus! 

The art of meditation may be learned by dint of effort. You say, "I am quite unused to meditate. How shall I begin?" Deal gently with yourself at first. Select your subject, some passage from the Word. Then fix the time you choose to give; say, five minutes at a time. Begin, and think aloud. This makes it easier, and saves the mind from distracted thoughts, the hardest task of all. The sound even of your own voice will help you; it is like speaking to a friend.   And what is meditation, but communing with self, that self may be a constant hearer. 

But, more than all, make it a time of prayer of communing with God. This helps the matter greatly. Take the words of Scripture, and ask Jesus what they mean. In doing this, the mind is exercised. A glow of thought attends the effort. You honor Jesus; and He will honor you, by pouring out a largeness of capacity, a quicker mind. The interchange of thought between you and Jesus goes on apace, and you are surprised to find how long the exercise has lasted. Thus meditation grows, the more it is exercised. It feeds the soul, expands the mind, increases thought, and, best of all, it brings you into fellowship with Jesus. This is the very life and soul of meditation. 

 [George Mylne] 

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 Ecclesiastes 7:25 ... I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

 Joshua 1:8 ... his book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

 Psalm 1:2 ... But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

 Psalm 77:12 ...  I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.❤

Do Not Ask.

What are the times, my friend? Who made, who ordered them? Out of whose bosom did they come? Who holds them in His hand? To quarrel with the times, is to find fault with God! He has made them all beautiful in their seasons. (Ecclesiastes 3:11.) 

If they do not please you, whose fault is it? Could you have made them better? Examine well the links which interweave time present with time past, the mysterious chain of providential dealings. Look at the ordering of events, one hanging on the other, in perfect order, though mysterious. Survey the wonders of God's providence, the wondrous workings of His sovereign power. These are the sum and substance of the times: times past, times present, and times future; your times and my times; the times of all men in all ages! 

To change the times, were to derange the ordering of Providence from first to last; to break the golden chain of divine events; to mar the beauty of God's structure. God's dispensations revolve in fixed and sure orbits, all moving, acting, following, in perfect order. To pluck one adverse event away: to change sunshine for rain, or rain for sunshine; sorrow for joy, or joy for sorrow; easy for hard, or hard for easy would be as foolish as to arrest the planets in their course, or sweep a constellation from the skies! 

You say, "Times past were better than the present." Is God less present now than then? Are His paths more difficult? Are His ways less sure? Has His grace, then, changed its character? Is Jesus not the same? Is man less wicked now than then? Does he deserve a milder treatment? Do not compare old times against present times; or your hard lot against the "fortune" of your forefathers. 

Compare your "lot" with your deserts; and say which best befits you: to thank God, or complain of His providential dealings with you! 

[George Mylne] 

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ...  Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

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Thank God that He has Veiled the Future!

God's purposes have all their seasons of fulfillment. His judgments each have their time of visitation. Mapped out in clear perspective, your every dispensation was fixed from everlasting in the eternal mind of God. Your sunny seasons, and your cloudy days; sorrow and pain, anxiety and lack, your every loss of property or friends all was designed before you ever saw the light. Trials may be in store for you, the thoughts of which would harrow up your soul if you knew they were coming! 

All this is known and ordained by God. What it will be, or when it is to come.  He never tells to His creatures. As lightning strikes for quickness; as wave comes after wave for frequency; so may trials visit you. They are as uncertain as the wind. Yet fixed in divine purpose, and in performance sure they come. From day to day, from hour to hour, who can foretell his future? "Therefore, the misery of man is great upon him!" 

Reader, is this your feeling? Is "therefore" misery great on you? Does it make you brood over possibilities alarmed at the contingency of woes? Would you rather, that all were known before, that you might be prepared for whatever trials and tribulations come? Rather, thank God that He has veiled the future, and deals out His dispensations one by one. The time, the way, the kind, the circumstances are all fixed by unerring wisdom, and by boundless love. It is thus that God is glorified; His power felt; His sovereignty known, free from the trammels of His creatures' will. Matchless in skill; unfailing in resources He thus proclaims His sovereign Godhead. 

The world may murmur, but the saints submit to God's sovereign plan. The world may tremble, but the saints are glad. In all their woes, they see a Father's hand, and a Savior's sympathy. They would not alter it if they could! They meekly leave the future to their God. The times and seasons; the "what," the "when," the "how," the "why" they would not, dare not, know! But these things they do know: that as their days so their strength shall be; that He who counts the stars and calls them by their names will heal the broken-hearted and bind up their wounds; that divine comforts shall keep pace with worldly sorrows, and that God's grace will be sufficient for every time of need! 

[George Mylne] 

Ecclesiastes 8:7 ... For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

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Fear Not!!

What is more helpless than a child without its mother's hand! Reader, what is more helpless than you without Christ! You can neither stand nor walk alone; but "God, who takes hold of your right hand, says to you: Do not fear; I will help you!" 

He will help you against sin; against Satan; against the world; against your own evil heart. He will help you when you are weary; when you are downcast; in the time of trial; and in the hour of temptation. He will help you to understand; He will help you to pray; He will help you to fight; He will help you to avoid the snares; He will help you to despise the vanities of this poor world. 

Ah, my fellow-sinner, this help is promised, because you need it all. 

[George Mylne] 

Isaiah 41:13-14 ...  For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.  Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

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Christ's Sympathy

Jesus took flesh, not only that He might save, but also sympathize with, His people. It behooved Him in all things to be made like unto His brethren; like unto them as a partaker of flesh and blood; like them in being a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief; like them in all the infirmities and troubles of life, sin only excepted. As God, the eternal Word, He might have pitied; it was only as God manifested in the flesh, that He could have a fellow feeling with His afflicted people. As Christ "was, in all points, tempted like as we are," so was He, in all points, afflicted like as we are. And thus the expression, "In all their afflictions, He was afflicted," may have a double meaning, namely that He personally tasted all their sorrows, as well as sympathized with them.

Human sympathy is sweet, but it is necessarily an imperfect thing. Sympathy, whether with sorrow or temptation, in order to be perfect, must proceed from One who has infinite power of sympathizing, and infinite good will to exercise it. What a difference we find between man and man! Some men will throw their whole heart and mind into the sorrows or the perplexities of others while some, either from deficient sensibility, or unwillingness to put it forth, have little or no sympathy to bestow.

It is far otherwise with Jesus. He possesses a human heart, and human mind, endowed with the infinite perceptions and sensibilities of the Godhead. When Jesus sorrowed, His grief was as infinite; when He rejoiced, His joy was as immeasurable as the divine nature, which was His from everlasting. A mind expanding with the endless elasticity, a heart swelling with the boundless emotions, of deity; divine in power, in feeling, in comprehension, but human in all the necessities; divine, yet man; human, yet God such was, such is, the Man Christ Jesus.

[George Mylne]

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Exodus 3:7 ...  And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Isaiah 63:9 ...  In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Hebrews 4:15 ...For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.❤

The Death of Children

Reader, is this your sad condition? Have you lost a child? Whether son or daughter, infant or of riper years, it is much the same in any case, a portion of yourself is gone. How sharp the visitation! How short its work! The grave has opened and has closed again; yet closed it not before it received its tenant until in its yawning space you had committed "dust to dust, ashes to ashes, earth to earth." How shrank your soul within you, as you heard those moving words, that grating sound upon the casket! And as you hastened home, enrapt in your tenderness, the thoughts of other children left to you (if indeed you have them), healed not the smart, nor seemed to make amends for your lost treasure. Oh, what a fearful wrench it must have been, to tear that branch from out its parent stem, never to grow and flourish there again! Oceans of tears shed over that silent grave would not avail to bring your loved one back to you. Long might you kneel on that cold ground, and yet, nor verdant sod, nor marble tomb, nor modest headstone, could listen to your sobbing tale.


Think not, my friend, I blame you for your tears; neither does God reprove you. He knows that you must feel the wound inflicted on your sorrowing heart. He knows your frame, remembers you are dust, and bids you seek Him in your tears, inviting you to tell your sorrows freely into His waiting ear. Believe me, this is the only remedy. Must the grave be visited unceasingly, and sorrow nursed until it becomes a morbid ailment a wound unsoftened with ointment, a standing sore; and all, because you sorrow to yourself, and not to Jesus?

Poor mourner, no! This is not the path to consolation, nor yet to rightly exercised distress. Do you ask, "What would you have me do?" See Love in it my friend! Is it not written, "God Is Love?" (1 John 4:8, 16). It was God who did it! It was God who took your child. Shall we say that God is love, in all but this? 

Have we found an end to His perfections, a limit to His love? Are there, then, exceptions to His perfect rule? No, God is love. Has He required of you what He Himself was not prepared to do? Has He not set you the example? Did God withhold His Son, His Only Son, for you and your salvation? Then say, could you withhold your child, when thus it pleased Him to ask you for what He only lent you for a season?

[George Mylne]

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Psalm 103:14 ...  For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Isaiah 40:7-8 ... The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

1 Peter 5:6-7 ... Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.❤

What is Your Burden?

Who has not a burden to bear in this world of burdens? All men have some burden or another and they have the heaviest burden who think that they have none to bear.

Do you ask me, reader, what I mean? Why, is not sin a burden, unpardoned sin? What man has such a heavy load upon his back, as he whose transgressions are not forgiven, whose sins are not covered as he, who walks about with a burden on him which will sink him into the bottomless pit, if he has it not taken off him? And yet, for the most part, those are the very men, who do not feel the burden.

They don't see their sins, they don't see their danger. They are full of earthly pleasure, their heart is as light as a feather. What do such men know of the burden of sin? How can they value the Savior's words, "Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest?" (Matthew 11:28.)

Poor souls, may God have mercy upon them! May He open their eyes to see their sin! May He cause them to feel their burden, before they sink under it, never more to rise! May He show them the way to Jesus, that the burden that is upon them may be taken off, and all their sins be cast into the depths of the sea!

 

 

[George Mylne]

 

 

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Isaiah 1:18 ... Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

 

 

Micah 7:19 ... He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

 

 

Acts 3:19 ...  Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. ❤

Our Faithful Friend and Companion

Human companions are often absent from us at the time when we most require their presence; in the day of sickness, or the hour of trial. But the Companion of companions has said, "Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine! When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior!" (Isaiah 43:1-3.)
 

Human companions cannot accompany us when we leave the world. But one has said of the great Companion, "Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil  for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me." (Psalm 23:4.)  Oh Believer, is there any moment when you may not rely on the presence of your faithful Friend?

Human companionship has its limits in the degree of nearness, to which one heart can draw near to another. There are bounds, which no human fellowship can pass. Community of thought and feeling must stop somewhere. You cannot possibly make two hearts, one heart; nor two minds, one mind. The fondest earthly companions must still be separate in their existence you cannot make two human persons, one. How different it is with the companionship of Jesus!

Jesus moves in the inner man of the heart. He is at home there. It is His habitation. He is one with the renewed soul, which is of the very essence of the divine nature. Believers are the temples of the Holy Spirit their new heart is one with the Spirit. The Spirit is one with Christ, and Christ is one with the spirit. How, then, can the saints fail to be one with Christ in all holy companionship!

No man can be born a companion to another, for companionship is a thing of the heart. But every child of God is, at the time of his conversion, born a companion of Jesus. It cannot be otherwise, for he is born one with Christ, his new heart being a very portion of the heart of Jesus, his new mind a portion of the mind of Jesus. He is new-born into a community of thought and purpose, of interest and home, a perfect community with Jesus. Is not Jesus, then, the natural, the inevitable companion of the new-born soul?

How sweet to feel the heart-and-soul-companionship of Jesus! To feel that Christ and we are not twain, but one! To feel that our heart, and the heart of Jesus are melted into one! Earthly companions cannot know each other's minds, except they tell them. But Jesus moves in the very heart. Our very springs of thought are deep laid in the companionship of Jesus. There is not a spiritual perception that flits across the mind, but it is the common property, as it is the joint sensation, of the great Companion of our hearts. The companionship of Jesus and the saints is the sweet, and inevitable consequence of their unity with each other.

Believer, may you not repose on the companionship of Jesus? May you not be sure that He loves your company? The needle is not more surely drawn to the magnet, than the heart of Jesus is to yours. He cannot do otherwise than love to be with you; to be always with you, never to be absent from you. There is a holy, a loving necessity, on the part of Jesus, to be ever in your company. You are a very portion of Himself, how can He but flow to you? You are of His very nature, how can he but assimilate with you? It were violence to the heart of Jesus to be separated from you; to have this companionship dissolved would be to undo the law of the kingdom, to subvert the principle of the divine nature. Then, Christian reader, may you and I repose upon Jesus as a faithful Companion!

 

[George Mylne]

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Jeremiah 1:8 ... Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.


James 2:23 ... And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.


1 Corinthians 6:17 ... But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. ❤

Chance

Time, and her handmaid, what the world calls "chance", are clad in the vesture of uncertainty. What the worldling calls "chance" in reality, is nothing but God's divine providence. God's ways bespeak His wisdom and His power.  He is wise to adapt, and mighty to fulfill. Viewed with the eye of sense, God's ways often assume an air of fickleness; by which it is inferred that all things happen without rhyme or reason, with no settled law pervading, and no sovereign will directing their occurrence.

Thus man twists the attributes of God, and robs Him of His honor as though some mock divinity called "chance" presided over us, and made caprice his rule of action.

Man's needs are various, and require an ever varying treatment, hence the varieties of "time and chance." Not one event occurs without its meaning. All events are divinely fitted by the supreme Disposer's wisdom and sovereignty.

Such treatment is required for a fallen race. No one uniform law would suit every purpose. Shivered to atoms by the "fall"  all order is gone from man. Each broken fragment of his nature reflects prismatic rays of frailty, their hue, their color, their intensity, forever varying; each calling for a divine providence adapted to fit its need; and, as the prism varies, so is the divine treatment changed.

The divine eye which counts the feathers on the wings of insects; which numbers up the blades of grass; which counts the drops of water in the ocean; and registers each grain of sand upon the shore is quick to see, and swift to direct. Hence, are all the changes, accidents, and "chances" of man's experience.

Hence, "the race is not to the swift, or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise, or wealth to the brilliant, or favor to the learned." Man may propose but all the disposing is of God. God's "chance" (divine providence) is not the "chance" of men; all fickle and confused. God's "chance" is sure, fixed in its principle, certain in its aim, acting on rules of wisdom, inscrutable to man, yet clear and well-defined.

 

[George Mylne]

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Ecclesiastes 9:11 ... I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.


Isaiah 45:7 ... I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.


Psalm 103:19 ... The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.  ❤

Fear Not!

What is more helpless than a child without its mother's hand! Reader, what is more helpless than you without Christ! You can neither stand nor walk alone; but "God, who takes hold of your right hand, says to you: Do not fear; I will help you!"

He will help you . . . against sin; against Satan;  against the world; against your own evil heart.

He will help you . . . when you are weary; when you are downcast; in the time of trial; and in the hour of temptation.

He will help you . . . to understand; He will help you to pray; He will help you to fight;  He will help you to avoid the snares; He will help you to despise the vanities of this poor world.  Ah, my fellow-sinner, this help is promised, because you need it all.

 

What a world of temptation, sin, and danger — what a world of darkness and confusion you live in! There is none to help you — none to teach you — none to lead you on your way — but Jehovah. Do not be afraid! He will hold you by the right hand, saying, "I will help you!"

 

[George Mylne]

 

 

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Isaiah 41:10 ...  Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

 

 

Isaiah 43:5 ... Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

 

 

Deuteronomy 31:6 ... Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

 

 

 

Psalm 27:3 ... Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

 

 

Luke 12:32 ... Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ❤

"I Have Chosen You"

Christian reader, God says to you, "I have chosen you!" This is a great mystery but it is a comforting truth. God does not tell you WHY He chose you. He only tells you the simple fact. It is not for you to question it, or to shrink from it but to receive it, and be thankful.

God was free to love you — or free to loathe you.
He was free to choose you — or free to reject you.

He says, "I have chosen you!" Believe what God says, and rejoice. "Before the mountains were brought forth, before He had formed the earth and the world," God had chosen you! "From everlasting to everlasting, He is God." From everlasting to everlasting He loved, He chose,  He delighted in His people.

Fellow-sinner, if God says, "I have chosen you," He says it to encourage you; to strengthen you; to sanctify you;  that you may rest upon the everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure,  that you may look away from self, and see that salvation is altogether of the Lord.

 

Fellow-sinner, you are loved in Christ; chosen in Christ; called in Christ; saved in Christ!
Here is your foundation; here your hope; here your safety — you were "chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world!"

This is to humble you — as well as to exalt you.

This is to make you weep — as well as cause you to rejoice.

You are vile in yourself — but chosen to indescribable honor!

You are poor in yourself — but chosen to unspeakable riches!

You are naked in yourself — but chosen to eternal glory!

Child of God, never lose your hold of this precious truth. God has revealed it, that you might delight in it. Let this be the brightest jewel in your crown, this the sweetest cordial to your heart, that God says to you, "Fear not, I have chosen you!"

[George Mylne]

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Isaiah 41:9-10 ... Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.   Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
 

 

 

2 Timothy 1:9 ... Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
 

 

 

Ephesians 1:4 ... According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:  ❤