The New Life

God's Gift of His Son.
revival, or sanctification, or glory does He give us;
but Jesus, His own Son. The Lord Jesus is the beloved,
the equal, the bosom-friend, the eternal blessedness
of the Father. And it is the will of the Father
that we should have Jesus as ours, even as He has
Him.^ For this end He gave Him to us. The whole
of salvation consists in this : to have, to possess, to
enjoy Jesus. God has given His Son, given Him
wholly to become ours.^
What have we, then, to do? To take Him, to
receive and to appropriate to ourselves
enjoy Jesus as our own. This is eternal life.
the gift, to
** He
that hath the Son hath life." ^
How I do wish, then, that all young Christians
may understand this. The one great work of God's
love for us is, He gives us His Son. In Him we have
all. Hence the one great work of our heart must be
to receive this Jesus who has been given to us, to
consider Him and use Him as ours. I must begin
every day anew with the thought, I have Jesus to do
all for me.* In all weakness or darkness or danger,
in the case of every desire or need, let your first
thought always be, I have Jesus to make everything
right for me, for God has given Him to me. Whether
your need be forgiveness or consolation or confirmation,
whether you have fallen, or are tempted to fall,
into danger, whether you know not what the will of
iMatt. xi. 27 ;
John xvii. 23, 25 ;
Rom.
viii. 38, ;
39 Heb. ii. 11.
2 Ps. Ixxiii. 25, cxlii. 6
;
John xx. 28 ;
Heb. iii. 14.
3 John i. 12 ;
2 Cor. iii. 13, 5 ;
Col. ii. 6 ;
John v. 12.
* John XV. 5 ;
Rom. viii. 37 ; i Cor. i. 30 ; Eph. i. 3, ii. 10 ;
Phil,
iv. 13 ;
2 Tim. i. 12.
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