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I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Isaiah 27:3

The Lord Jesus Christ, Who lives at God’s right hand, has to send down supplies of His grace continually to keep your soul alive unto Himself. Without this life being kept up and maintained by these continual supplies of His grace, you cannot pray, or read, or hear the Word, or meditate with any feeling or profit. You cannot love the Lord and His blessed ways; you cannot submit to His righteous dealings; or hear the rod and Him Who appointed it. You may approach His throne, but your heart is cold, clouded, and unfeeling; your spirit sinks under the weight and burden of the trials and difficulties that are spread in your path; nor are you able to do anything that satisfies yourself, or that you think can satisfy God.

By these painful but profitable lessons, you are experimentally taught that you need the life of Christ as well as the death of Christ, the resurrection of Christ as much as the crucifixion of Christ; Christ as an ever-living, ever-gracious, ever-glorious Mediator, to send down supplies of His love and power into your soul, as much as you needed Him to die upon the cross for your redemption.

To the reader…

Here is a word for the days when you cannot pray, when the Word says nothing to you and your heart is cold and clouded at the throne of grace. You do what you can, and yet nothing satisfies: not yourself, and, so you think, not God either. That is a painful lesson, but a profitable one. It teaches you that you need not only Christ Who once died on the cross, but also Christ Who now lives at God’s right hand and must supply you with His grace every moment.

Listen, then, to what He Himself promises: “I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.” Your life does not depend on your own ability, but on His faithfulness. If you are dry, He is the Fountain. If you are weak, He keeps you night and day. Come to Him, then, with your cold heart, the ever-living and ever-gracious Mediator, and ask Him to pour the fullness of His love into your soul.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl