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The Gospel Magazine 731
the things the blessed God has said. He watches over His people
when it is well with them and when it is ill with them. They are
justified to the uttermost for ever. It is a little company here to-night,
but they are sinners and they desire to be assured more and more in
God's own handwriting of their position as accepted in Christ, justified
in the Beloved.
Where should the dear shepherds think of finding Jesus if not where
they did ~ this Babe-this blessed Babe-this Infant of days ~
Oh, how He loves! From eternity His love has always been set upon
His Church, His own Bride. Oh, how dear she is in His sight. You
desire, dear children of God, by His grace you desire, to know Hini
more perfectly. Cleave to Him, oh! cleave to Him. The days of
your waiting are fast fleeting away, they will soon be past. The time
is at hand when God will arise from His place and show His people
the beginning of that which has no end.
Jesus says, "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life." He is
the excellent Way, the narrow Way, the Way that leadeth to life
eternal. The Way always and still. Rejoice and be glad in God's
Way, which He calls" the Way," He has made this Way His perfect,
saving Way.
The blessed Babe was hunted out of Palestine. On the eighth
day was His circumcision, the first blood was shed in the beginning of
days. Salvation unto the uttermost was the way He took, and the
shedding of His blood began early-eight short days after He had been
born. But that did not make atonement. That must be made by
the shedding of blood for sin, and it is by the substitutionary death
of Jesus that the sinner finds acceptance in the sight of God.
Gaze upon the Holy One. They placed Him in a manger that the
oxen fed out of. That was all the world provided; but the Father
found Him a place at His right hand, high above all principalities
and powers of which He made a show openly. Oh, His dear Son!
the highest place is His. And He is coming again shortly. "Yet
a little while and He That shall come will come, and will not tarry."
This is His own word, His sure word, the word He has sworn to
and will keep to a thousand generations.
How dear was this Child to Ris Father. He said, "This is My
beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased," and on another occasion,
" Hear Him." He is One of a thousand. His voice is eternal life.
Oh, thousands and thousands of hearts are waiting the blessed coming
of the Lord Jesus, and He will cut short His work in righteousness
and end all earthly kingdoms. SanctiEy that moment of waiting
which is so short. He has called you by His grace and is keeping
you by His grace for Himself.
" They saw Mary" when they paid this visit, but they did not
worship her; they were not worshippers of Mary. The sole
object of their worship was the Holy One Himself. Oh, that Infant
of days! He was to speak words whereby men would be saved.
His word is life. Who teacheth like Him ~ He leadeth the blind