Daily Devotionals

Devotional: June 27th

"Much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." - Romans 5:17.

The object is to show that Christ has much more than repaired the ruin wrought by Adam, in the case of all those who avail themselves of the salvation wrought out by him. Instead of the one throne where Death sat and swayed the destinies of man, there are now myriads, millions of thrones, on each of which a believer is to sit and give the universe a visible demonstration of what Christ can bestow upon the soul that comes to him.

First, he is to receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness. It is impossible for him to receive this without the renunciation of his own imagined goodness, strength, and glory. He must be emptied of self; impoverished with respect to all that he has called wealth; ruined with respect to all that he has called life, honor, and excellence. He dies. He lives again. The full tide of God’s abounding grace finds itself now at liberty to flow into his soul. He follows the highway of holiness. He has a white stone with a strange inscription, in exchange for which he is to receive a crown of far more than imperial dignity, at the treasury of heaven. When asked if he is a king, he, like his Lord, replies, " Thou sayest it;" and if you choose, you may mock him as men did his Lord; he cannot, however, but bear witness to the truth.

Thus there are millions of kings, and each of them immeasurably more exalted than any king of earth ever was. Do you ask, over whom they are to reign? Know that it does not become the kings of Christ’s appointment, to reign over any but kings. All their subjects are kings. For they are all subjects to each. This is one badge of their kingdom, that they in honor prefer one another, and that each finds his happiness in consecration to the good of others.

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