Morning, January 3
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Isaiah 49:8
"I will give thee for a covenant of the people."
Isaiah 49:8
Jesus Christ is himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as
one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst
thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? "In him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily." Consider that word "God" and its
infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect man" and all his beauty; for
all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine--out
of pure free favour, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property
forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent,
omnipotent. Will it not console you to know that all these great and
glorious attributes are altogether yours? Has he power? That power is
yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to
preserve you even to the end. Has he love? Well, there is not a drop of
love in his heart which is not yours; you may dive into the immense
ocean of his love, and you may say of it all, "It is mine." Hath he
justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for he
will by his justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the
covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. And all that
he has as perfect man is yours. As a perfect man the Father's delight
was upon him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God's
acceptance of Christ is thine acceptance; for knowest thou not that the
love which the Father set on a perfect Christ, he sets on thee now? For
all that Christ did is thine. That perfect righteousness which Jesus
wrought out, when through his stainless life he kept the law and made
it honourable, is thine, and is imputed to thee. Christ is in the
covenant.
"My God, I am thine--what a comfort divine!
What a blessing to know that the Saviour is mine!
In the heavenly Lamb thrice happy I am,
And my heart it doth dance at the sound of his name."