Daily Devotionals

Devotional: July 12th

" He died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again." - 2 Corinthians 5:15.

He died for all; a glorious truth repeated in every variety of language, and oftentimes with the utmost explicitness that language can admit of. By virtue of this unlimited atonement, salvation may be offered to all, the gospel to every creature, the water of life to whomsoever will; by virtue of this, men that believe not are condemned because they have not believed on the Son of God, and men are convinced of sin be cause of unbelief. It is this that gives its pathos to the language of Christ. " How often would I have gathered thee, and thou wouldest not. I would, thou wouldest not. Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life." And to the language of Paul: " Seeing that ye put away from yourselves everlasting life." And to the language of wisdom: " Because I have called and ye refused, therefore ye shall call and I will not answer."

But though there be an unlimited atonement there is a limited redemption. He died for all, and the result is not, that all live; he died for all that they who live should not live unto themselves. He died for all in the sense that all may live if they will; he died for the elect in the sense that they will actually will to live. Life is offered to all; but all are not allowed to reject it

And this is the life that they obtain, namely a willingness to live unto Christ; a purpose and a power to live according to the mind of Christ. There is nothing that seems so much like death to men as the subjugation of their own will to the will of another. They know not that their own will is their greatest enemy, enthroned within them for their present misery and future destruction. The believer’s happiness it is to discover that the will of Christ indicates the only path in which he will find peace, purity, genuine liberty, dignity, immortality, felicity.

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