Gems worth pondering
February 16
"Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved."
(John 13:23)
"In Him was no sin." (1 John 3:5)
It is not by accident or chance that the one who leaned on the breast of Christ and could feel the heartbeat of the Saviour would later take up his pen and write of His sinlessness - those tremendous words which have come down through the centuries, "In Him is no sin." In:
- Thought,
- Actions,
- Words,
- Motives,
- HE IS SINLESS.
When the world would seek to attack the impeccability of our Lord, may we lay hold upon the words of John today, "IN HIM IS NO SIN." (John M. Clegg)
N.J. Hiebert # 3617
February 17
"He hath bent His bow like an enemy."
"He stood with his right hand as an adversary." (Lamentations 2:4)
"The Lord was as an enemy." (Verse 5)
Three times in verses 4 and 5 God is said to have acted as though He were their enemy. It is well to notice the qualifying expressions "like" and "as." An enemy He never was; though their conduct compelled Him to act as if He were. How many a Christian has had to know Him in a similar way! How often has He seemed to become an enemy! but faith looks beyond all that the eye can see, and knows that He is unchanged in His love and tenderness. It is sin in His children that has broken in on the fellowship He delights to have them enjoy. He is "of purer eyes than to behold iniquity;" and while He will never give up one of His redeemed, He will not countenance looseness of walk and an unbridled tongue in any, simply because He has saved them. In fact, it is just the contrary, for "whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." (H.A. Ironside - Notes 0n Lamentations)
N.J. Hiebert # 3618
