Morning Verse
"The love of Christ which passeth knowledge." Ephesians 3:19
The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passeth all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe His matchless, His unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless that, as the swallow but skimmeth the water, and diveth not into its depths, so all descriptive words but touch the surface, while depths immeasurable lie beneath. Well might the poet say,
"O love, thou fathomless abyss!"
for this love of Christ is indeed measureless and fathomless; none can attain unto it. Before we can have any right idea of the love of Jesus, we must understand His previous glory in its height of majesty, and His incarnation upon the earth in all its depths of shame. But who can tell us the majesty of Christ? When He was enthroned in the highest heavens He was very God of very God; by Him were the heavens made, and all the hosts thereof. His own almighty arm upheld the spheres; the praises of cherubim and seraphim perpetually surrounded Him; the full chorus of the hallelujahs of the universe unceasingly flowed to the foot of his throne: He reigned supreme above all His creatures, God over all, blessed for ever. Who can tell His height of glory then? And who, on the other hand, can tell how low He descended? To be a man was something, to be a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer, these were much for Him who was the Son of God; but to suffer such unparalleled agony--to endure a death of shame and desertion by His Father, this is a depth of condescending love which the most inspired mind must utterly fail to fathom. Herein is love! and truly it is love that "passeth knowledge." O let this love fill our hearts with adoring gratitude, and lead us to practical manifestations of its power.
Evening Verse
"I will accept you with your sweet savour." Ezekiel 20:41
The merits of our great Redeemer are as sweet savour to the Most High. Whether we speak of the active or passive righteousness of Christ, there is an equal fragrance. There was a sweet savour in His active life by which He honoured the law of God, and made every precept to glitter like a precious jewel in the pure setting of His own person. Such, too, was His passive obedience, when He endured with unmurmuring submission, hunger and thirst, cold and nakedness, and at length sweat great drops of blood in Gethsemane, gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked out the hair, and was fastened to the cruel wood, that He might suffer the wrath of God in our behalf. These two things are sweet before the Most High; and for the sake of His doing and His dying, His substitutionary sufferings and His vicarious obedience, the Lord our God accepts us. What a preciousness must there be in Him to overcome our want of preciousness! What a sweet savour to put away our ill savour! What a cleansing power in His blood to take away sin such as ours! and what glory in His righteousness to make such unacceptable creatures to be accepted in the Beloved! Mark, believer, how sure and unchanging must be our acceptance, since it is in Him! Take care that you never doubt your acceptance in Jesus. You cannot be accepted without Christ; but, when you have received His merit, you cannot be unaccepted. Notwithstanding all your doubts, and fears, and sins, Jehovah's gracious eye never looks upon you in anger; though He sees sin in you, in yourself, yet when He looks at you through Christ, He sees no sin. You are always accepted in Christ, are always blessed and dear to the Father's heart. Therefore lift up a song, and as you see the smoking incense of the merit of the Saviour coming up, this evening, before the sapphire throne, let the incense of your praise go up also.
The Big Picture and the Bottomline:
HE PRAYS FOR THE EPHESIANS. 3:13-19
The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are the best blessings. Strength from the Spirit of God in the inner man; strength in the soul; the strength of faith, to serve God, and to do our duty. If the law of Christ is written in our hearts, and the love of Christ is shed abroad there, then Christ dwells there. Where his Spirit dwells, there he dwells. We should desire that good affections may be fixed in us. And how desirable to have a fixed sense of the love of God in Christ to our souls! How powerfully the apostle speaks of the love of Christ! The breadth shows its extent to all nations and ranks; the length, that it continues from everlasting to everlasting; the depth, its saving those who are sunk into the depths of sin and misery; the height, its raising them up to heavenly happiness and glory. Those who receive grace for grace from Christ's fulness, may be said to be filled with the fulness of God. Should not this satisfy man? Must he needs fill himself with a thousand trifles, fancying thereby to complete his happiness?
GOD PROMISES TO PARDON AND RESTORE THEM. 20:33-44
The wicked Israelites, notwithstanding they follow the sinful ways of other nations, shall not mingle with them in their prosperity, but shall be separated from them for destruction. There is no shaking off God's dominion; and those who will not yield to the power of his grace, shall sink under the power of his wrath. But not one of God's jewels shall be lost in the lumber of this world. He will bring the jews to the land of Israel again; and will give them true repentance. They will be overcome with his kindness: the more we know of God's holiness, the more we see the hateful nature of sin. Those who remain unaffected amidst means of grace, and would live without Christ, like the world around them, may be sure it is the way to destruction.
The Bottomline: God fully accepts us through one's "faith" It just "don't" matter race we are or our own individual reputations we might have in our lives, or what positions we hold in our life in the society, or superiority whether it be at work or on our jobs, titles, or shepard of any head of any church, in any kind of relationship we think we may have in Jesus Christ in knowing the divided Holy Scriptures it just has "No" bearing on God's forgivness often times enough we have to either get some encouragement or get that encouragement for God in His word in one's own personal study time and being prayfully as we do it. God will forgives us either in the things we've done or forgot to do. Something at one time had literally destroyed our reputation that we had commanded not only in our own life but other's that had been in and around our life as well. It's all a matter of "trust" in having the forgivness that had taken us "hostage"in being confident and being grounded by the word of God in knowing he will accept us just as we are at that moment. But it just don't matter to Jesus Christ in all of those things at all! All that matters to Him is that He loved us enough for what He did in our place on that wonderful " Cross of Calvery" to become whole and which it brings total freedom in our lives. He has an unique "Purpose" for our very own life to fulfill in us to bring all other's to come to know Him in a very deep personal realtionship. As we have such a dymanic unlimited love in Jesus Christ in being anchored and firmly rooted in God's soil. We move effectively in the Lord in being confident in Him that Jesus Christ is able to do far more than we could ever imagine through us by the Holy Spirit as He take us through all things in our life.He gives us His truths through the Bible as He speaks unto us in our study time daily as we search and pray daily, going to our home churches as He shows us through our "Shepard" guiding our lives on a weekly basis, Bible study time in our church as well. God gives and bring that wonderful "restoration" that overflows our lives that's beyond words. Only the Holy Spirit know such truths that comes forth as we utter things unto Him that helps us move in Him in our life. We alway's rememer to " Do" it God's way as He leads un to many victories in our future in one day heading home in the "New Jerusalem" as our home of Glory.
catcmo2006 want to Thank You for allow in this site,group sites, web sites and other prayer sites as well in holding one another up for prayer's being totally united in everyone around this world, it's about Jesus Christ first and prayers,intecessory prayer's and at other times about this vast world we live in today which this old world as we all know it is slowly departing to be reaching our home in glory.
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