the Third Week after Easter
Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
"Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." - Luke 12:32.
In these words we read the future destinies of the world. When an Alexander arises and hurries through the world, snatching crowns on the right hand and on the left, and threatening to take unto himself all sublunary power, the people of God are told to fear not; the kingdom is for them, not him. So too when a Julius Caesar grasps at the sceptre of universal dominion. And when a Napoleon appears on the scene, they calmly wait to see him and his kingdom vanish. For they have looked with Daniel on the image that expressed before hand the vicissitudes of the world from the Babylonian dominion down to the time when dominion is given unto the Son of man, and by him given to the people of the saints of the Most High. The meek shall inherit the earth. Not only is there for them an inheritance reserved in heaven; but thrones shall come down from heaven and be set upon the earth; and they shall sit thereon. " For we shall reign on the earth."
But who are these unmanifested kings and priests? They are now a little company of sheep; a little flock; mutely submissive when led to the slaughter; willing to be inglorious, poor, weak, despised, rejected; fitting themselves to be all that is great and excellent and powerful, by their willingness to be nothing.
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