Till He Come SAMPLE

Till He Come
God.
II. Now let us consider how we get alive again, and so know
the Lord as the resurrection and the life. John did revive, and he
tells us how it came about. He says of the Ever-blessed One, —
“He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I
am the first and the last: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and,
behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell
and of death.”
All the life-floods of our being will flow with renewed force if,
first of all, we are brought into contact with Jesus: “He laid His
right hand upon me.” marvelous patience that He does not set His
foot upon us, and tread us down as the mire of the streets! I have
lain at His feet as dead, and had He spurned me as tainted with
corruption, I could not have impugned His justice. But there is
nothing here about His foot! That foot has been pierced for us, and
it cannot be that the foot which has been nailed to the cross for
His people should ever trample them in His wrath. Hear these
words, “He laid His right hand upon me.” The right hand of
His strength and of His glory He laid upon His fainting servant.
It was the hand of a man. It is the right hand of Him who, in
all our afflictions, was afflicted, who is a Brother born for
adversity. Hence, everything about His hand has a reviving
influence.
The speech of sympathy, my brothers, is often too unpractical,
and hence it is too feeble to revive the fainting; the touch of
sympathy is far more effectual. You remember that happy story
of the wild negro child who could never be won till the little lady
sat down by her, and laid her hand upon her. Eva won poor
Topsy by that tender touch. The tongue failed, but the hand
achieved the victory. So was it with our adorable Lord. He
showed us that He was bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh;
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