Amen & Amen!
Precious Jesus!
Blessings,
Soraya
Em seg., 25 de abr. de 2022 08:24, mike mcinnis <ratmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
escreveu:
Greetings sis Reis, et al;
THis is one of my most favorite accounts of the LORD's watch-care over
HIS own that can be found in the scriptures. It is a most comforting and
joyous occasion made all the more sweet by the blessed comments of mr.
Hawker. Even when we are oblivious to the LORD's care for us, when we are
caught up in the maelstrom of the cares of this world, HE is ever working
all things together for our good. HE knows exactly what we need and does
supply it at the proper time. HE stood upon that shore long before any of
HIS disciples knew of it and HE had already prepared a sumptuous hot meal
for them without their request. Having loved HIS own HE loved them unto
the end.
Blessings, mike
On 4/24/2022 4:12 PM, Soraya Reis wrote:
*"But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore; but the
disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, children,
have ye any meat?" John 21:4, 5 *
*Every incident in relation to Jesus, and his love to his people, becomes
interesting; and here is a very sweet one. Jesus was now risen from the
dead. But his disciples had only faint and indistinct notions of the
immense importance of this glorious event. They therefore were returned to
their employment of fishing, as unconscious of what the resurrection from
the dead should mean. All night they had been employed in a fruitless
pursuit, and when the morning began to dawn, Jesus stood on the shore; but
their eyes were holden, that they did not know him. *
*My soul! learn from hence, that Jesus is often with thee, often looking
on thee, and often providing and preparing for thee, while thou art
ignorant of his presence and his love. He speaks to them, before they speak
to him. Yes; "if we love him, it is because he first loved us. "And what
doth Jesus say? "children, have ye any meat?" Precious account of Jesus! *
*My soul, turn over the several blessed particulars shewn in it. He calls
them children. Yes: his people are his children, for he is the everlasting
Father, as well as their Husband and Brother: indeed, he stands in the
place of all relations, and fills all. My soul! if thou didst but consider
this, and keep the remembrance of it always uppermost in thine heart, how
wouldest thou delight to go to Jesus, as to "a brother born for adversity,
a friend that loveth at all times, and one that sticketh closer than a
brother!" Observe how earnest the Lord is concerning their present state
and safety. *
*Oh! that every child of God in Christ would learn from hence how Jesus
takes part in ail that concerns them. Surely this solicitude of Jesus takes
in the whole of a believer's warfare. Are they poor in this world? Do they
seek their bread out of desolate places? Like the disciples, do they toil
all night, and gain nothing? And shall not He, who providently caters for
the sparrow, know it, and provide for them, amidst all their manifold
necessities? *
*Look up, my poor afflicted brother (if perchance such an one should read
these lines of my Evening Portion); look up, I say, and behold Jesus in
this endearing instance of tenderness to the wants of his few faithful
disciples. He that caused a miraculous draught of fishes to supply the
pressing necessities of his disciples, can, and will equally now regard the
state of all his redeemed, under their various temporal straights and
difficulties. The promise is absolute, and hath never failed: "thy bread
shall be given, and thy waters shah be sure, and thy defence shall be the
munitions of rocks," Isaiah 33:16. And as for spiritual famine, when at any
time the waters of the sanctuary run low, Jesus is the Almighty Governor,
our spiritual Joseph, through all the Egyptian state of his people here
below; and he speaks to every one, yea, to thee, my soul, in the number:
"children, have ye any meat?" *
*Lamb of God! though thou art now in thine exalted state, yet not all the
church in glory above, nor all the hallelujahs of heaven, can detain thee
one moment from knowing, and visiting, and supplying all the manifold wants
of thy church in grace here below! Doth Jesus say to me," hast thou any
meat? "Lord, I would answer, thou art "the bread of life, and the bread of
God; yea, the living bread, which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life
to the world!" Precious Jesus! be thou my bread, my life, my hope, my
fulness, my joy, and my portion for ever! *
*Robert Hawker (1753-1827) *
