Amen, brother Mike!
Blessings,
Soraya
Em dom, 3 de jan de 2021 23:27, mike mcinnis <ratmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
escreveu:
Greetings sis Reis, et al;
As I read this verse and mr. Hawker's comments I was reminded of that
hymn which says, "E'en down to old age all HIS people shall prove, HIS
Sovereign, Eternal, Unchangeable love." THe calling of Abraham never
changed from the beginning of his journey out of Ur of the Chaldees (24
years earlier) until his death 76 years later. Long before the LORD
appeared to Abram and called him out of the land of his fathers, the LORD
had determined to bless him with all of the promised blessings which he
poured out upon him. The greatest of these was that promise given to his
SEED, to set HIM up as HIS KING upon the holy hill of Zion. Oh to be given
grace to walk in the LIGHT of HIS WORD. In CHRIST we are made perfect.
Blessings, mike
*"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to
Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be
thou perfect." Genesis 17:1 *
*Our old bibles, in their margin, have retained the original El Shaddai,
which we now read God Almighty, and marked it also God All-sufficient,
meaning that Jehovah in covenant with Jesus, as the head of his people, is
all-sufficient in himself, and all-sufficient for all their need in time
and to eternity. He is God All-sufficient, or of many paps, many breasts of
consolotion, (as some derive the word) for his faithful ones to suck at and
draw from, in an endless supply. Here then, my soul, take this sweet title
of thy covenant God and Father in Christ Jesus for thy daily meditation,
both at the opening, and through all the periods of the coming year. And as
even at old age the Lord still opened to Abraham this precious source for
his comfort, so look up in Jesus and behold it as thine. And Oh, my soul!
do thou walk before him in the perfect righteousness of God thy Saviour,
and thus daily keep up fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus
Christ. *
*Robert Hawker (1753-1827) *
