Daily Devotionals

Devotional: February 14th

’’If it were not so, I would have told you." - John 14:2.

There is something exceedingly gracious and affecting about this declaration. It is the language of pure friendship and open-hearted confidence. " If things had been darker than they are, if your difficulties greater, if your future less glorious, be sure that I would have told you. Did I ever seek to disguise the difficulties that would throng your path, if you became my followers? Did I speak in a whisper of the cross that you would have to bear? Did I keep you ignorant of an opposing world, oppressive governors, persecuting monarchs? Did I not speak emphatically of scourgings, stonings, imprisonings?"

" Again, did I ever keep back anything from you that was really needful for your encouragement and your guidance? I have told you all things that were calculated to contribute to your fortitude and to your joy. I know well that the idea will creep some time into your mind, (for what idea is so wild that it finds no access to the mind of man, even of the man whom God hath taught,) the idea will present itself to you that the revelation made by me is not all that it should be. Curiosity, for instance, may desire to know very much about the many mansions in my Father’s house; but be assured, if that more detailed information had been truly desirable for you, I would have communicated it. Infinite wisdom and infinite love have not only prompted the words that I have given you, but my silence also. I might have expatiated much upon my Father’s house of glory; but it would have hindered you from paying due attention to the way that leadeth to that house. Enough for you to know that I am there, with the glory which I had before the world was; that ten thousand times ten thousand sons of God walk there in purity and majesty; and that there are vacancies in their ranks which it is understood that you are to fill. What is of chief exigency is that you should know well the spot on which you are putting down your foot, and be perfectly instructed in the way of righteousness."

Reader, are you satisfied with the revelation that God has been pleased to give you? Dare not to doubt this word of Christ, that if it had been lost for you he would have told you more. Shall man hand God a table of contents, and ask the Almighty to make a revelation thereto accordant?

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