the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
"I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer." - Isaiah 49:26.
What an inconceivable length and breadth, depth and height has every such declaration as this! The whole life-journey of the Christian is a journey into the treasures that he heaped up in this sentence. In it, in fact, are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. After a month of some peculiar experience, let the believer come and look into this verse, and he will find what he never found before. In the avenue commanded by this verse, no two Christians are at exactly the same place; no two have gathered from it exactly the same amount of blessing.
When the repentant sinner looks upon the cross of Jesus Christ, he takes hold of the great, surprising truth, that the Lord of the universe has entered into a specific covenant for his redemption. He has found a friend, one pledged to go all lengths in the matter of his deliverance from danger, sin and sorrow, and looking upon the face of this friend sees it resplendent with an uncreated glory. His Saviour is seen by him to be no less a being than God. But his conceptions of God are yet exceedingly imperfect. Daily he meditates in the word; follows the Lord Jesus through all the scenes of his earthly ministry; avails himself of all the apostolic expositions; familiarizes himself with the visions of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and John. The character of God unfolds itself wonderfully to his view; and as it does so, the words " I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer" undergo many transfigurations, pass from one glory to another. The whole universe waits upon this little text, for all the hosts of heaven exist to make known Him whose relation to the sinner is set forth in this passage.
There are innumerable sorrows of life that cannot but take to flight when faith waves this sentence over them. Why art thou cast down, my brother? Hast thou found reason to believe that this Saviour and Redeemer is not so great a person as was once supposed; and that you have committed your destinies to a person who is very little more capable than yourself of bringing you to bliss and purity and glory? Your look seems to intimate that you have made such a discovery. If you really believe that He who has taken upon him to conduct you to paradise is a being of absolute power, infinite authority, matchless wisdom, unfailing faithfulness, and inexhaustible mercy, why art thou cast down? In the presence of his in finite perfection, lift up your petty ills and see what they look like.
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