The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

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our discipline, and the last page may be opened
before
us.
Reiterated sin tends to exhaust the known and appointed
resources of divine grace meted out to men
upon earth.
Upon this paralysed man a miracle of culminating
virtue had been wrought. By a new creating word
he had been lifted from the living death in which he
had been stretched for a generation. Whilst lying
there babes had grown into maturity, and a new
generation had begun to turn the crest of the hill.
And now he is started like a young athlete in the
race of life once more. A resurrection could add little
to the splendour of this miracle. In fact, this was a
resurrection
with just a faint
in which the rigid, decrepit subject of it,
spark of consciousness in his brain,
watched the marvellous reanimation of his own
skeleton. He felt the tide of a new life rise over the
last ebbing pulse of the old.
of no further climax.
Such a miracle admitted
If the healed man could resist
the influence of this inimitable sign he was surely
beyond all spiritual quickening. Unless conscience
now rose up into vigilance there could be no possible
help for him, and he must pass into darkness and
shame. Divine grace had reached the last term of
its earthly possibilities.
And have not some of us perhaps arrived at a
corresponding stage in our spiritual life - history
Jesus proclaims forgiveness to us through the cross,
and His grace reaches its meridian. The Lord of
mercy and power shows us as much of Himself as
we can hope to see here upon earth. We certainly
do not need to know more for our complete salvation.