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Morning and Evening

January 3, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"I will give thee for a covenant of the people." — Isaiah 49:8 · KJV

Jesus Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and, as one of its gifts, He is the property of every believer. Believer, can you estimate what you have gained in Christ? "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Consider that word "God," and its infinity; then meditate on "perfect man," and all his beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had or can have, is yours — out of pure free favor, passed over to you to be your entailed property for ever. 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? There is not a drop of love in His heart that is not yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of His love, and say of it all, "It is mine." Has He justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for by His justice He will see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace is most certainly secured to you. And all that He has as perfect man is yours. As a perfect man, the Father's delight was on Him; He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God's acceptance of Christ is your acceptance; for do you not know that the love the Father set on a perfect Christ, He sets on you now? For all that Christ did is yours. That perfect righteousness which Jesus wrought out, when through His stainless life He kept the law and made it honorable, is yours, and is imputed to you. Christ is in the covenant. My God, I am Yours — what a comfort divine, what a blessing to know that the Savior is mine! In the heavenly Lamb thrice happy I am, and my heart dances at the sound of His name.