Morning By Morning #3

I…will make you to be a covenant for the people.

Isaiah 49:8

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

Jesus Christ is Himself the sum total of the covenant, and, as one of its gifts, He is the possession of every believer. Dear Christian, are you able to fathom what you have received in Him, “for in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form” (Col. 2:9)?

Consider the word God in all its infinite greatness, and then meditate on the beauty of “becom[ing] mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13). Remember, as God and man, all that Christ ever had or has is yours purely because of His favor. It has been freely bestowed on you and will be your inheritance forever.

Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. Isn’t it comforting to know that all of these glorious attributes are totally yours? Does He have the power you need? His power is yours in order to support and strengthen you, subdue your enemies, and sustain you forever.

Does He have the love you need? There is not a drop of love in His heart that is not yours, and you may dive into His immense ocean of love and say, “This is all mine!”

Does He have the justice you need? This may seem to be an unpleasant attribute, but even it is yours. And it is this very justice that will make sure everything promised in His covenant of grace will indeed be secured for you.

You also share in the Father’s delight that was upon Him as a perfect man. He was accepted by the Most High God. Therefore, dear believer, God’s acceptance of Christ is your acceptance as well. Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

All that Christ accomplished is yours. The perfect righteousness Jesus displayed is yours. Throughout His untarnished life He obeyed the law, made it honorable, and His righteousness is now imputed to you.

Through the covenant, Christ is yours!

My God, I am yours—what a comfort divine!

What a blessing to know that the Savior is mine!

In heaven’s pure Lamb, threefold happy I am,

And my heart does a dance at the sound of His name.

Charles Wesley, 1707-1788

From the pen of Jim Reimann:

Yes, Christ is yours! And you have the assurance that the future of your inheritance doesn’t depend upon you. You have “an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:4).

Notice what this verse doesn’t say, “Kept in heaven by you.” No, it is kept for you! The passage goes on to say that you yourself “are shielded by God’s power” (1 Peter 1:5). With that in mind, whom should we fear?

“So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?’” (Heb. 13:6). And we pray along with the apostle Peter,

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope” (1 Peter 1:3).