December 5
Life's Golden LampElle have the petitions that we desired of him.
1 JOHN v. 15.
Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.
MATT. viii. 13.
IN quick transition the human and the divine in Christ pass before us. The great wonder-worker himself marvels at the miracle of faith. How artlessly human!
Unembarrassed at the strange proposition, prompt as an echo comes the response, "Go thy way." What sublime divinity!
It was not the hasty dismissal of impotence or indifference or impatience, but the certain answer of a mighty, all-sufficient helpfulness to the cry of a simple, obedient faith. Christ acted like "one having authority." The same sublime almightiness that "arched the heavens" is here. "Go: be it done." And this same almightiness seems obedient to a Gentile's faith: what more unpromising? What could be mightier? Absolutely limitless in its own nature, it so accounted of God's ability: and so it put all the powers at its control in perfect accord with the divine purpose. What a mighty combination was that! What indeed are obstacles when God and man are one?
J. W. Fisher.
Oh, make but trial of his love!
Experience will decide
How blest are they, and only they,
Who in his truth confide!
TATE.