Great and Precious Promises "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro
throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is
perfect toward him." These "eyes" referred to are the Lord’s influence, His power of knowing, whatever the means. ... God has means, no doubt, far superior to any of ours. ... He tells us that angels are his ministers, and that these have a charge over his people. ... But the angels of the Lord, ... have a charge more particularly over us of the Gospel Church than over any other of the Lord’s people at any previous time in the world’s history. The Lord is especially interested in Spiritual Israel. These angels, then, care for us, supervise our affairs, and are God’s agencies or channels of communication to us as to his will; that is, communication in the sense of providences for us, causing this providence or the other providence.—R5634 * * * "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end." — Hebrews3:14 The spirit of discontent looks away from the heavenly manna of Divine provision, longing for other food of their own provision or of other earthly supply. The Lord grants such an opportunity of feasting to the full on what they are desiring. ... The Bible supplies the Manna of Divine Truth. The truth needs to be gathered, ground and baked, but it is God’s provision. It is wholesome and nutritious, it is the very thing that we, as the people of God, need for our strengthening and perfecting. Yet some crave the flesh pots of Egypt—the world’s theories. Then he allows these to come within their reach. They fill themselves with Higher Criticism and Evolutionary theories, and as a result perish as New Creatures, cease to be the people of God, cease to walk in the Master’s footsteps. They are consumed by the fire, or fever, which the errors they crave produce.—R5306 * * * "If God be for us who can be against us?" — Romans 8:31 Each one of these (the "saints") may say to himself, and realize to the very bottom of his heart as applicable to himself, these wonderful words—God is for us. He may endeavor to grasp the significance of these words, but he will surely fail to get all of their wonderful meaning. It is not possible for the human mind to grasp the riches of Divine grace and love and power. We cannot comprehend them, we can merely apprehend them. If God be for us, with all of his infinite wisdom and power, it implies also that Christ is for us, for he is one with the Father; it implies also that all the angels, cherubim and seraphim, and all the heavenly powers of our knowledge and beyond our knowledge are for us—all enlisted upon our side, to do us good, to help us, to succor us in time of need, to uphold us in time of temptation, to strengthen us to do the Father’s will. ... The fact that God is "for us" and that he is making all things work together for good .. is the central thought, the essence, the strength of this message to "us." — R4214 * * * "Is any thing too hard for the Lord?" — Genesis 18:14 The spirit of God is powerful in whatever way it is applied. As an illustration of its power, the apostle points us to our Lord Jesus and his literal death, and how God’s holy spirit raised Jesus from the dead in his resurrection. The thought is that this power of God thus exercised on behalf of the Lord Jesus, and which he promises so to exercise in the close of this age on behalf of all the faithful members of the body of Christ, indicates a power of God by which, if we avail ourselves of it, the new nature will find strength to conquer, to keep the flesh under, and, more than this, to make it active, energetic in the service of righteousness. — R3203 |