July 9

1. Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. 2. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the eve of your doings, saith the LORD. 3. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whether I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

4. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. 5. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6. In his days, Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHT-FOUSNESS. 7. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

8 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up

and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries writings I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

Jesus is called King. In this chapter His name is called THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. It is in His kingly capacity that this glorious name is given to Him. For only by "submitting ourselves to the Righteousness of God," can we have "the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works." There can be no compromise—it must be His only or ours only. He must be our King, or He will not be our Rightcousness.

"Now who is like to this royal King crowned in Zion? When shall I get a seat for royal Majesty? If I could set Him as far above the heavens as thousand thousands of heights devised by men and angels, I should think Him too low. His love hath neither brim nor bottom; His love is like Himself: it passeth all natural understanding. I go to embrace it with my arms; but it is as if a child would take the globe of sea and land in his two short arms. Blessed and holy is His name!"—Rutherford.

Closet Promise.—They shall call on My name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God— Zech. xiii. 9

The late Rev. James Allen used to pray: "O God, make me now all that Thou wouldest have me to be now; make me now all that it is possible to be now." Prayer like this, offered in full consecration and full trust, always evokes the desired response from the divine mercy.