Today's encouragement comes from 2 Samuel 18:9b, where we read these words:
" . . . so he [Absalom] was left hanging between heaven and earth."Our Lord Jesus Christ, when He was on the cross, bearing the sins of all the elect church from all time, hung, as it were, "between heaven and earth." He bridged the infinite gap between a holy God and sinful men. The regenerate Christian, who struggles through the process of sanctification, also, in a sense, is suspended "between heaven and earth." Our old flesh nature (earth), is at war with our new nature in Jesus (heaven).
Unregenerate sinners also are suspended between “heaven” and “earth,” as well. As they hear the gospel, they are beckoned above; as they listen to their own hearts, they devolve below. May all of us reside with Jesus in glory to-day, via supernatural faith in Him.
[Edwards quote of the day: "In His last sufferings, Christ sapped the very foundations of Satan's kingdom. He conquered His enemies in their own ter-ritories, and beat them with their own weapons, as David cut off Goliath's head with his own sword.” —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, "The Excel-lency of Christ"]
