The Personal Glories and Government of Christ (Psalm 45) Words: Isaac Watts Tune: Amazing Grace
1) I'll speak the honors of my King, His form divinely fair; None of His sons of mortal race May with the Lord compare.
2) Sweet is thy speech, and heav'nly grace Upon thy lips is shed; Thy God, with blessings infinite, Hath crowned thy sacred head.
3) Gird on Thy sword, victorious Prince, Ride with majestic sway; Thy terrors shall strike through Thy foes, And make the world obey.
4) Thy throne, O God, for ever stands; Thy word of grace shall prove A peaceful scepter in Thy hands, To rule the saints by love.
5) Justice and truth attend Thee still, But mercy is Thy choice; And God, thy God, thy soul shall fill With most peculiar joys. ***** SCRIPTURE READINGS TODAY: MORNING: PSALM 45:1-6 EVENING: Romans 2:17-29 ***** Daily Readings -March 20-26 Sunday - Judges 1-2 Monday - Judges 3-5 Tuesday - Judges 6-7 Wednesday- Judges 8-9 Thursday - Judges 10-11 Friday - Judges 12-14 Saturday - Judges 15-17 *****
Behold the Lamb of God
"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29) Nothing can make poor sinners truly happy, but that which taketh away the cause of all misery, sin. This is effected. The Lamb of God hath taken away all sin, by His sacrifice for us. When, by the eye of faith, we behold this Lamb, then all sin is taken away out of our conscience. When a soul thinks, 'Sin has condemned me before God; the law accuseth me daily; it works wrath in my conscience continually; and I am oft ready to cry out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me?' Thanks be to God for a precious Redeemer. The Lamb, which God provided, hath done it for ever. All our iniquities were laid upon Him. "He bare it in His own body on the tree," the sin, the whole of sin, every sin of all that shall believe in Him, to the end of the world. By the sacrifice of Himself He put all away, out of the sight of God, as one puts away an offensive thing. He bore it away into a land of forgetfulness, as a thing that is hurtful. So then saith God the Father, to all His children in Christ, "Your sins and your iniquities I will remember no more. (Jeremiah 31:34).
But one is often ready to say, How can this be true? for I daily see I am a sinner; the remembrance of sin is before me, in my thoughts; though, for a season, time may efface sin from my memory, yet it recurs afresh upon my conscience. It may, it will do so, O soul; and nothing can effectually take it away but this, "Behold the Lamb of God." He taketh sin away now, this present moment, every moment: at what time soever thou beholdest Jesus by the eye of faith, all the sin which troubles thee, thou wilt see it laid on Him, and He taketh it away from thee. O how sweet to have no more conscience of sin!
Continually to behold this Lamb of God, is life to our souls, and death to our sins. Sin cannot terrify with its guilt: sin cannot prevail in its power while the heart is looking to this Lamb of God, for He says, "Look unto Me, and be ye saved." Astonishing mystery! but this is God's truth. Thus to behold, is to be happy. Thus to look, is to be holy. May this, O my soul, be thy daily employ below, till thou beholdest the Lamb in the midst of the throne above. Thanks to the gracious Father, for the gift of this precious Lamb; thanks to this holy Lamb for bearing and taking away sin; and thanks to the loving Spirit, for showing this Lamb to poor sinners and ME—"God forbid I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ"(Galatians 6:14).
If sin most vile to me appears, What must th' Omniscient see! But, God beholds us in his Lamb, From sin forever free. This is the truth by which we live: By Faith beholding Christ. Our consciences from guilt are freed; Then unbelief resist. --William Mason
***** Three Books There are three books which, if a man will read and study, he can dispense with most others.
1. The book of Providence--and this he reads to good purpose, when he sees written down line by line the providential dealings of God with him, and a ray of Divine light gilds every line.
2. The Word of God--and this he reads to profit, when the blessed Spirit applies it with power to his soul.
3. The book of his own heart--and this he studies with advantage, when he reads in the new man of grace the blessed dealings of God with his soul--and in the old man of sin and death, enough to fill him with shame and confusion of face, and make him loathe and abhor himself in dust and ashes. --J. C. Philpot *****
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