An eternal pact
"I will give
thee for a covenant of the people"
(Isaiah 49:8)
Jesus Christ is himself the sun 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 hearth
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 hi will by his justice see to it that
all wich 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 hearth it doth dance at the sound of his name".
C. H. Spurgeon