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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" God is my salvation and my glory." - Psalms 62:7.
God is my Saviour; and inasmuch as he saves me by bringing me into blessed relations to himself, clothes me with the garment of his own unsullied righteousness, and makes me to bear his image, I may well speak of him as my salvation. This, like a thousand other passages of the Old Testament, teaches the divinity of Christ, and it is a marvel how any one can say that the evidences of this are chiefly confined to the New Testament. Every passage in the Old Testament that exhibits God as the Saviour of his people, is as true a testimony to the divinity of Christ as anything in his own works and words. The doctrine of Christ’s divinity is dear to the believer, not only because of the honor that thereby redounds to Christ, but because all the honor of Christ thereby redounds to God. It is not merely the exaltation of Christ, but the condescension of God, that attracts him to the gospel. He does not merely add divinity to him who sat upon the margin of the well at Sychar, and who sailed upon the lake of Gennesaret; he adds humanity to the infinite God, in whom he lives, moves, and has his being.
It is one thing to hold the doctrine of Christ’s divinity, and it is another to draw from the doctrine its fullness of blessing. Have I been, so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me? Many that are accustomed to read the gospel have no idea of the power with which its statements would come to their soul, if they would allow this doctrine to flash its light upon the words.
They read for instance, "Oh, ye of little faith, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I suffer you?" Let them consider these words as revealing the mind of him who is not far from any one of us, the omniscient and immutable God; and let them discover by means of them with what strong dissatisfaction he who compasseth their path and their lying-down regards their unbelief. How long shall he be with us unknown and unperceived; how long shall the boundless and ever-present riches of his grace be offered us in vain? " He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." Let us labor to connect the idea of the Almighty, the Ever-living, Ever-present one, with the words and acts of Christ.
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