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Devotional: February 20th

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" Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord." - James 5:7.

Because, first, there is no doubt about that coming. His first coming was the most wonderful, the most staggering to faith. That the Son of God should have been found in fashion as a man, without form or comeliness, with but rare coruscations of his glory, enduring the contradiction of sinners, and dying on the cross; this is a marvel that swallows up all marvels, and frees from all embarrassment the question of his second advent.

Because he will come in glory such as no heart of man ever conceived, shedding an infinite lustre upon the least jot and tittle of his slighted Gospel, and embracing in his own matchless radiance and felicity, those who now accept the legacy of his promises, and walk in the path of his humiliation.

Because we shall be forever with the Lord. The day of his coronation and of ours is a day on which the sun shall never go down.

Because he cometh; he cometh! The bell of his providence is sounding ever and anon, telling that another prophecy is fulfilled, another hour of this our day of expectation elapsed, another footfall of his glorious approach accomplished.

Be patient, therefore. Yet think not that by this we are bidden to wait supinely, and with our attention given to other things. But rather as they that watch for the morning, let us hasten unto the day of the Lord.

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