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Devotional: December 17th

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"As the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations." - Isaiah 59:11.

Isaiah had a vision of the Lord upon his throne surrounded by the seraphim; and the seraphim seem to have had a vision of the renewed earth, of what it shall be in the day when the glory of Christ shall be everywhere perceived, and when there shall be the manifestation of the sons of God. We are yet but in the seed-time; but it is interesting to observe that the seed is carried to all shores and scattered among all nations, and that everything is fast hastening to the hour when, at the new creating voice of God, the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and when righteousness and praise shall fill the face of the whole earth. A nation shall be born in a day; the whole earth shall bring forth at once.

Were it not that men are accustomed to behold just such a transformation, nothing would seem more idle or preposterous than the expectation that beautiful and odoriferous and fruitful trees and shrubs, should spring from the earth as a result of the scattering of sundry seeds therein. How utterly unlikely to the eye of sense, or to the imperfect vision of infantile faith, does It appear that the preaching of the Gospel, the poor and checkered attempts to make known God’s despised word of life, should ever eventuate in the imparadising of earth. Of itself it will not. God gives it an opportunity to show what it can itself do; and the hours of this protracted opportunity, how heavy, how almost insupportable to him who longs to behold the glory of God in the land of the living! But the coming of the Son of Man to inherit all nations, and extinguish all rule that is not of him, hath an absolute connection with the attempts of his people to preach the Gospel to every creature.

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