August 28—Morning—2 Kings 4:1
“The creditor has come to take my two sons to be bondmen.”—2 Kings 4:1.
My soul, how does this have an effect on you? Are you in debt? By nature and by follow, you have been miserably so, until the debt has been cancelled. As a creature, and as a sinful creature, you’re in your self ceaselessly bancrupt. You don’t have anything to pay and are utterly unable to ever pay. And the way a lot do you owe to my Lord? Alas, my soul, you owe thousands and thousands of money owed to your Almighty Creditor. The legislation you might have damaged; justice calls for retribution; conscience condemns; Devil accuses; and the creditor has come to take not solely your two sons however each elements of you, soul and physique, to the jail of dying and hell, until some almighty Surety has stepped in and paid the dreadful debt so that you could be be free.
At dying, and on the judgment that follows, both eternal launch or eternal imprisonment will happen. And who is aware of whether or not the choice could come tomorrow? Certainly, whether or not the identical sentence that went forth to the wealthy man within the gospel has not already been issued regarding you—”This evening your soul shall be required of you!” Pause, my soul! Is it not excessive time to flee to the Prophet, even the Prince of Prophets, the Lord Jesus, to inform him your scenario and search his deliverance?
Pay attention, does he say, because the prophet did to the poor lady, “What shall I do for you? Inform me, what do you might have in the home?” Just isn’t Jesus with you? Just isn’t his fullness suited to your vacancy? Do you might have him with you in the home? Then shut the door; carry, carry, my soul, all of your empty vessels—Jesus will fill all of them. And his generosity won’t cease till all of your vessels are crammed; certainly, each vessel will run out earlier than his grace runs out. And if you find yourself stuffed with Jesus, stay on Jesus, and see that Jesus has paid your Almighty Creditor and left sufficient so that you can stay on ceaselessly.
Oh, the rapture and the enjoyment, when the Almighty Creditor comes, whether or not at midnight, at cockcrow, or within the morning, to know that the dreadful debt is paid and to listen to him say, “Ship him from taking place into the pit; I’ve discovered a ransom.”
 
August 28—Night—John 14:24
“The phrase which you hear just isn’t mine, however the Father’s who despatched me.”—John 14:24.
My soul, have you ever ever absolutely and completely thought-about that candy and valuable instructing of your Lord, who, as Mediator, when on earth, constantly confirmed to his disciples in all his discourses and conversations? I imply, that every one he was, all he had, and all he distributed have been the blessings and presents of his Father, by means of him, to his individuals. Even if in case you have meditated on this most blessed side of the gospel deeply and sometimes, it would nonetheless reveal new glories with each contemporary reflection on it. So, sit down this pleasant summer time night and take one other have a look at it.
Jesus involves his individuals in his Father’s title, and he says on this lovely scripture that his very phrases should not his personal, however the Father’s. A lot of the Father’s coronary heart is in Christ—in all of Christ, in all he says, and in all he does. What’s Jesus doing in all his ministry on earth, and even now in his sovereignty in heaven, however revealing to his redeemed the Father’s love, grace, and mercy towards his individuals in him? Did he not come forth from the bosom of the Father, stuffed with grace and reality, as if to disclose to us what lies within the Father’s coronary heart—the love and mercy towards his individuals within the wonders of redemption? And isn’t Jesus nonetheless, in each renewed manifestation, instructing his redeemed the identical?
If all that the Father has belongs to our Jesus, and all of the fullness of the Godhead bodily dwells in him, we must always by no means obtain any of his good and blessed presents with out acknowledging the Father’s love in them. Would not this make each blessing doubly candy and more and more valuable? If Jesus himself is the present of the Father, shall I not benefit from the Father in all that Jesus bestows? And since I can haven’t any direct communion with the Father besides by means of him, will not the mercies acquire a particular blessedness and worth once they come to my poor soul by means of Jesus’s palms, because the beneficiant dispenser of them?
Certainly, will I not discover a flavour that would by no means have been recognized in any other case, in receiving them from and thru Jesus? Being satisfied that nobody involves the Father besides by means of him, and that if he had not opened a brand new and dwelling manner by his blood, I might by no means have recognized the Father’s love or the Redeemer’s grace. Expensive Lord Jesus, could your blessed Spirit assist me at all times to maintain these valuable truths in remembrance. Then I shall actually take pleasure in each your individual and your presents. I cannot, just like the apostle, pray for a sight of the Father distinct from you, for I will likely be completely glad and satisfied that in seeing you, I see the Father additionally; and to any extent further, I do know him and have seen him. “Thanks be to God for his indescribable present.”
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Supply:The Poor Man’s Morning and Night Portion by Robert Hawker (calmly modernized by Monergism)