Gems for Monday / Tuesday
May 25
"He bearing His cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull."
(John 19:17)
His cross? How could it be His cross? He is the One for whom God the Father rent the silent skies to proclaim: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." God the Holy Spirit, through the pen of John, wrote: "In Him is no sin." God the Son, with full honesty stated, "I do always those things that please the Father." An openly critical human throng could not respond to His challenge, "Which of you convinces Me of sin?" That cross was not His but ours. But He made it His to pay the penalty of our sin. What a Saviour! (David J. Logan)
N.J. Hiebert # 2257
"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." (Colossians 3:2)
How earnestly should we seek as members of the household of God, to give a right impression of what He is by our temper, spirit, style and manner! If men of the world - those with whom we come in contact from day to day in the practical details of life - if they see us looking sour, morose, downcast - if they hear us giving utterance to doleful complaints about this, that, and the other - if they see us occupied about our own things - grasping, griping driving as hard bargains as others - if they see us grinding our employees with heavy work, low wages and poor fare - what estimate can they form of Him whom we call our Father and our Master in heaven?" (C.H. Mackintosh)
N.J. Hiebert # 2258
