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The Poor Man's Morning and Evening Portions
Devotional: January 4th

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January 4—Morning—Genesis 27:1

"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."—Genesis 17:1.

Our old bibles, in their margin, have retained the original El Shaddai, which we now read God Almighty, and marked it also God A11-sufficient, meaning that Jehovah in covenant with Jesus, as the head of his people, is all-sufficient in himself, and all-sufficient for all their need in time and to eternity. He is God All-sufficient, or of many paps, many breasts of consolation, (as some derive the word) for his faithful ones to suck at and draw from, in an endless supply. Here then, my soul, take this sweet title of thy covenant God and Father in Christ Jesus for thy daily meditation, both at the opening, and through all the periods of the coming year. And as even at old age the Lord still opened to Abraham this precious source for his comfort, so look up in Jesus and behold it as thine. And Oh, my soul! do thou walk before him in the perfect righteousness of God thy Saviour, and thus daily keep up fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

January 4—Evening—1 Samuel 28:23

"And David said, seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?"—1 Samuel 18:23.

Did David indeed set by so high an honour in being allied to the family of an earthly prince; what then must be the dignity to which believers are called, in being heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ? The apostle was so lost in the contemplation of this unspeakable mercy, that he cried out with holy rapture, " Behold! what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God!" My soul, art thou begotten to this immense privilege? Ponder well thy vast inheritance. Not a barren title, not an empty name; this relationship brings with it a rich revenue of all temporal, spiritual, and eternal blessings. Sons in law and in grace to God in Christ, believers are born to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. They have the spirit of adoption and of grace; and " because they are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into their hearts, whereby they cry, Abba, Father." Are they poor in outward circumstances? Bread shall be given, and water shall be sure; and their defence Shall be the munitions of rocks. Are they afflicted in body or in mind? their back shall be proportioned to their burden ; and as their day is so shall their strength be. Every child shall have his own portion, and the Father’s blessing sanctifying all. Yea, death itself is in the inventory of the inheritance of a child of God; for so far is death from separating from God, that it brings to God. What sayest thou, 0 my soul! to these things? Art thou, like David, a poor man and lightly esteemed? Look up and, enjoy thy relationship in Jesus, and from this time do thou cry out, in the words of the prophet, and say unto God, "My Father! thou art the guide of my youth."

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