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Devotional: August 25th

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The trumpet shall sound, and the dead, shall be raised. - 1 Corinthians 15:52.

ERE long shall be heard the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. “For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised.” Oh that we now could realize that awful scene! When the dead are slumbering in their graves, and the living are regardless of eternity; while the scoffer asks, “Where is the promise of his coming?” when there is no more appearance of its approach than there was of the destruction of Sodom, or of the general deluge; when many are asleep in their beds, dreaming of happiness and peace; while some are forming plans of avarice, and others parties of pleasure; while some are marrying and given in marriage, and others have just sat down to the card-table; when one has just taken up a pen to write to a friend, the pen drops, the hand becomes immortalized, the clangor of the trump of God, louder than ten thousand trumpets, announces that God himself has come! Ah, he is come, then!

Some rejoice at the sound, but all must hear it. Oh, if we could realize this scene now! What manner of persons should we then be, in all holy conversation and godliness looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of the Lord, “when the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and all the works that are therein, shall be burnt up.” He that will then be on a throne of wrath is now on a throne of mercy. “Blessed are our eyes, for they see; and our ears, for they hear.” Some have heard the sound of the jubilee-trumpet, and have come: they have dedicated themselves to God; they have found,-

“There is no joy compared to this,

To serve and please the Lord.”

What are they doing? Surely they are giving thanks unto him who hath called them out of darkness into light, who hath made them meet to be partakers with the saints in light. Surely they are endeavouring to bring others into the same condition. They know what the meaning of distance from God is, seeing they were once in that state and ready to perish. They know what it is to come to God by Jesus Christ. They, therefore, are the people to whom we look. They can speak with confidence, with feeling, with effect. Surely they will speak. “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.”

“Oh, ’tis a godlike privilege to save.”

And the Apostle James says, “If any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.”

Evening Devotional

We have known and believed the love God hath toward us. - 1 John 4:16.

This is the language of all those in whose hearts the love of God hath been shed abroad, who have been made to differ from those whose hearts are at enmity with God. These are blessed with “all spiritual blessings in heavenly places with Christ,” and are made willing to stand forth and declare-

“-to sinners round,

What a dear Saviour they have found.”

Thus, as God’s witnesses, they gratefully and practically testify of the love God hath towards them. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and hath sent his Son to be the propitiation of our sins.” They are ready to say: "Ah, he found me under the curse of the law, a wanderer from himself, yea, in rebellion against him, and he spared me; he fed me, he clothed me, he called me by his grace; he has forgiven all my trespasses as if they had never been committed; he has admitted me into his house and into his family, and he holds communion with me now; and I walk with God, I lean upon his arm, and I am waiting for the “manifestation of the sons of God,” when “that which is in part shall be done away,” and I shall be “presented faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.”

Yes, “God is love,” and if there were no other proof in the universe, I am the everlasting monument of this truth. I am a monument of this truth, inscribed TO THE GLORY OF GOD. And what then will it be when this acknowledgment comes, not from an individual, but from myriads-from all the redeemed, from all the sanctified? And even then the exemplification of the subject will not be absolutely complete; it will be always growing, for ever and ever it will be growing, in the evidence “God is love.”

“Glory be to him who gave us,

Freely gave his Son to save us,

Glory to the Son who came,

Honour, blessing, adoration,

Glory from the whole creation,

Be to God and to the Lamb.”

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