Morning “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” John 17:22

 Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he hath given us his

all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a universe of angels

rich beyond all thought, yet was he not content until he had given us all that

he had. It would have been surprising grace if he had allowed us to eat the

crumbs of his bounty beneath the table of his mercy; but he will do nothing by

halves, he makes us sit with him and share the feast. Had he given us some small

pension from his royal coffers, we should have had cause to love him eternally;

but no, he will have his bride as rich as himself, and he will not have a glory

or a grace in which she shall not share. He has not been content

 with less than making us joint-heirs with himself, so that we might have equal

possessions. He has emptied all his estate into the coffers of the Church, and

hath all things common with his redeemed. There is not one room in his house the

key of which he will withhold from his people. He gives them full liberty to

take all that he hath to be their own; he loves them to make free with his

treasure, and appropriate as much as they can possibly carry. The boundless

fulness of his all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he

breathes. Christ hath put the flagon of his love and grace to the believer’s

lip, and bidden him drink on forever; for could he drain it, he is welcome to do

 so, and as he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink abundantly, for it is

all his own. What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth afford?

  “When I stand before the throne

Dressed in beauty not my own;

 When I see thee as thou art,

 Love thee with unsinning heart;

 Then, Lord, shall I fully know–

 Not till then–how much I owe.”

 

Evening “Ah Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power

and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.” Jeremiah 32:17

 At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword,

famine and pestilence had desolated the land, Jeremiah was commanded by God to

purchase a field, and have the deed of transfer legally sealed and witnessed.

This was a strange purchase for a rational man to make. Prudence could not

justify it, for it was buying with scarcely a probability that the person

purchasing could ever enjoy the possession. But it was enough for Jeremiah that

his God had bidden him, for well he knew that God will be justified of all his

children. He reasoned thus: “Ah, Lord God! thou canst make this plot of ground

of use to me; thou canst rid this land of these oppressors; thou canst make

 me yet sit under my vine and my fig-tree in the heritage which I have bought;

for thou didst make the heavens and the earth, and there is nothing too hard for

thee.” This gave a majesty to the early saints, that they dared to do at God’s

command things which carnal reason would condemn. Whether it be a Noah who is to

build a ship on dry land, an Abraham who is to offer up his only son, or a Moses

who is to despise the treasures of Egypt, or a Joshua who is to besiege Jericho

seven days, using no weapons but the blasts of rams’ horns, they all act upon

God’s command, contrary to the dictates of carnal reason; and the Lord gives

them a rich reward as the result of their obedient faith. Would

 to God we had in the religion of these modern times a more potent infusion of

this heroic faith in God. If we would venture more upon the naked promise of

God, we should enter a world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers. Let

Jeremiah’s place of confidence be ours–nothing is too hard for the God that

created the heavens and the earth.