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Devotional: March 7th

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GOD’S PROMISE OF GRACE

His favour is as dew upon the grass. - Proverbs 19:12

The prose of this sweet old promise, that God will be as the dew unto His people, is, " If I depart I will send Him unto you." If we are Christian people, we have the perpetual dew of that Divine Spirit, which falls on our leaves and penetrates to our roots, and communicates life, freshness, and power, and makes growth possible - more than possible, certain - for us. " I" - Myself through My Son, and in My Spirit - "I will be" - an unconditional assurance - "as the dew unto Israel."

Yes! That promise is in its depth and fulness applicable only to the Christian Israel, and it remains true to-day and for ever. Do we see it fulfilled? One looks round upon our congregations, and into one’s own heart, and we behold the parable of Gideon’s fleece acted over again - some places soaked with the refreshing moisture, and some as hard as a rock and as dry as tinder, and ready to catch fire from any spark from the devil’s forge and be consumed in the everlasting burnings some day. It will do us good to ask ourselves why it is that, with a promise like this for every Christian soil to build upon, there are so few Christian souls that have anything like realized its fulness and its depth. Let us be quite sure of this- God has nothing to do with the failure of His promise. And let us take all the blame to ourselves.

"I will be as the dew unto Israel." Who was Israel? The man that wrestled all night in prayer with God, and took hold of the Angel, and prevailed, and wept, and made supplication to Him. So Hosea tells us, and, as he says in the passage where he describes the Angel’s wrestling with Jacob at Peniel, "there He spake with us" - when He spake He spake with him who first bore the name. Be you Israel, and God will surely be your dew, and life and growth will be possible.

The dew, formed in the silence of the darkness, while men sleep, falling as willingly on a bit of dead wood as anywhere, hanging its pearls on every poor spike of grass, and dressing everything on which it lies with strange beauty, each separate globule tiny and evanescent, but each flashing back the light, and each a perfect sphere, feeble one by one, but united mighty to make the pastures of the wilderness rejoice - so, created in silence by an unseen influence, feeble when taken in detail, but strong in their myriads, glad to occupy the lowliest place, and each "bright with something of celestial light," Christian men and women are to be "in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord."

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