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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
"All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." - Isaiah 52:10.
These words are remarkable as being the utterance of a Hebrew prophet, in days when Gentiles were viewed as castaways. What Christ long afterwards commanded is here prophesied. We now behold the beginning of the fulfilment. The ends of the earth are becoming in some sense acquainted with the wonderful ransom paid for sinners by the Lord Jesus Christ.
The universal preaching of the Gospel brings out first and foremost the great truth of the universality of man’s apostasy and of his inherent opposition to the divine plan of salvation. The Gospel triumphs nowhere without a struggle, without a conflict. It has to endure the contradiction of sinners. But the salvation of God is seen in every country when men and women of that country embrace the truth as it is in Jesus. But it seems to the benighted people perdition, not salvation; and its proclaimers are counted destroyers, not benefactors. But there is power - and it is, in alliance with the Gospel, to be revealed from heaven in due time, - to convince all these ungodly men of their ungodly deeds, and make them sensible of their absolute need of just such a salvation as that which Christ offers.
Christ shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. He shall see that for which his soul travailed in such indescribable anguish in the garden of Gethsemane; the joy that was set before him he shall experience, when his people shall be one in him, even as he is one with the Father. When the New Jerusalem shall come down from God out of heaven, and kings shall bring their honor and their glory into it; when his bride shall have been presented before the throne of his Father’s glory, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. He shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied, when all his people have seen of the travail of their souls and are satisfied.
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