Fri.-Sabbath, 7/26-28/19 Devotion

Praise God—it is almost Sunday again! We *get* to go to church and worship our Lord! In order to help us get ready, here is the great Puritan pastor Rich-ard Sibbes, from his amazing, "The Bruised Reed" classic. . . .

“How we should think of Christ. . . .

"When we think of Joseph, Daniel, John the Evangelist, we frame concep-tions of them with delight, as of mild and sweet persons. Much more when we think of Christ, we should conceive of Him as a mirror of all meekness. . . . In Christ all perfections of mercy and love meet. How great then must that mercy be that lodges in so gracious a heart. . . . We are weak, but we are His; we are deformed, but yet carry His image upon us. A father looks not so much at the blemishes of his child as at his own nature in him; so Christ finds matter of love from that which is His own in us. He sees His own nature in us. . . . Can Christ forget Himself? We are His fullness, as He is ours. He was love itself clothed with man's nature, which He united so near to Himself, that He might communicate His goodness the more freely to us. . . . "