Morning and Evening

Today — August 26, Morning

"He hath commanded His covenant for ever." — Psalms 111:9 · KJV

The Lord's people delight in the covenant itself. It is an unfailing source of comfort to them, whenever the Holy Spirit leads them into its banqueting house and waves its banner of love. They delight to consider the antiquity of that covenant, remembering that before the morning star knew its place, or the planets ran their round, the interests of the saints were made secure in Christ Jesus. It is especially pleasant to them to recall the sureness of the covenant as they meditate on "the sure mercies of David." They delight to celebrate it as signed, sealed, and ratified, ordered well in all things. It often makes their hearts swell with joy to think of its unchangeableness — a covenant that neither time nor eternity, life nor death, shall ever be able to break, a covenant as old as eternity and as everlasting as the Rock of Ages. They rejoice, too, to feast on the fullness of this covenant, for in it they see all things provided for them: God their portion, Christ their companion, the Spirit their Comforter, earth their lodging, and heaven their home. They see in it an inheritance reserved and secured to every soul who has an interest in its ancient and eternal deed of gift. Their eyes sparkled when they saw it as a treasure hidden in the Bible; but oh, how their souls were gladdened when they saw, in the last will and testament of their divine Kinsman, that it was left to them! More than all, it is the pleasure of God's people to consider the graciousness of this covenant. They see that the law was made void because it was a covenant of works and depended on merit; but this covenant they perceive to be enduring, because grace is its basis, grace its condition, grace its strain, grace its bulwark, grace its foundation, grace its topstone. The covenant is a treasury of wealth, a granary of food, a fountain of life, a storehouse of salvation, a charter of peace, and a haven of joy.

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