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He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure.
2 Samuel 23:5

O the blessedness of having a manifest interest in the blood of the covenant, and thus to have a testimony that God has made a covenant with His dear Son upon our behalf; that our names are written in the book of life; and that Christ is our Mediator at the right hand of the Father! What are all earthly blessings compared with this? What are health and strength and riches and all the goods of this life; what is everything that the carnal heart can desire or the covetous mind grasp; what is all compared with an interest in the everlasting covenant, and in the love and blood and righteousness of the Lord the Lamb? What is earth, with all its attractions, compared with an interest in the precious, precious blood of a dying Jesus?

You will find it so when you come to lie upon a bed of languishing and pain; when the cold drops of sweat stand upon your forehead, and the last enemy is about to grasp you by the throat. What will your anxious strivings to have something and be something more than you have or are—aye, I may add, your successes—what will they do for you then? Only be so many ghastly spectres of the past to terrify and alarm your conscience, to see what shadows you have been seeking to grasp to the neglect of solid substance. But in that solemn hour to have a testimony from God of pardon and peace, will make smooth a dying bed, will calm all anxious fears, and will take you safely through the dark valley of the shadow of death.

To the reader…

How often do you think about your last hour, and on what does your heart rest then? Health, strength and riches may seem a great deal while life goes on, but on the deathbed, when the cold sweat stands upon the forehead, they can do nothing for you. What you strove so hard to attain may then even terrify your conscience. I say this solemnly, because it is true: whoever neglects the better part will one day discover what he has missed.

But how blessed it is to have an interest in the blood of the everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure! Whoever possesses a testimony of pardon and peace from God in that solemn hour finds his dying bed made smooth; so he is led safely through the dark valley. If you are still seeking that testimony, do not give up. Ask the Lord that Christ may be your Mediator too at the right hand of the Father, for nothing on earth can compare with that.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl