Daily Devotionals
Devotional: June 24th
" Much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." - Romans 5:10.
If we owe much to the death of Christ, we owe much more to his life. It were little to give us the freedom of the universe, if in that universe we could not find Christ. It were little to give us immortality, if there were no Sun of Righteousness to make that immortality glorious and beautiful. It would be like discovering some unknown friend in his dying hour; we have hardly time to acquaint ourself with his amazing love, and to see the flash of his kindness illuminating our life, before he is removed by death, and we are left to a desolation greater than we had ever known before, because of the moral beauty and the heart of love that had for a moment revealed themselves.
The death of Christ was one exhibition of the love of Christ; he lives that he may, forever and forever, give us newer, still newer, still newer expressions of his unfailing goodness. Being reconciled, there is no longer anything to hinder the forth-flowing of the divine beneficence toward us. God is love; and we belong to the number of those whose whole business in life, in everlasting life, is to be making advances in the experience of God’s love. But there will be ever something special in the manner by which we have be come reconciled, to make us singularly dear to God and to Christ. He hath graven our names upon the palms of his hands. He was pierced for us. We were chosen in such a furnace of affliction as had never been kindled by Babylonian kings. He can never look upon us without the thought of what he suffered to bring us nigh unto God.
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