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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
"From him cometh my salvation." ― Psalms 62:1.
From whom? From him whose commandments I have so flagrantly violated, and whose authority I have set at nought. From him whose countless benefits I have clutched without noticing the hand that bestowed them. From the thrice-holy One at whose reproof the pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished; and by whose command the fallen angels are kept under the chains of darkness. Perdition has overtaken myriads of beings who went not so far in the contempt of God, as I did; yet salvation cometh to me from him. All his perfections, the stability of his government, the interests of his holy universe, seem to require the outpouring of his fiercest wrath upon my head; yet from him cometh my salvation.
From him it cometh. Every day, every hour, it cometh to me; by one agency, and by another; now in this manner, now in that. It cometh to me in his word; in the answers to prayer; in the examples of good men; in reverses and humiliations; and in the various providences that help me to see the loathsomeness of sin. It comes to me in the Holy Spirit, and in new views of the all-worthiness of Christ. And what has not yet reached me is on its way to me. By faith I rejoice in experiences to come; in deliverance from all sin and from all corruption; in perfection, moral, intellectual, and physical.
My salvation. I know more evil of myself, than I can positively know of another. When I take some of the pictures of my past life, and thrust them into the purity of heaven, the whole creation seems to suffer violence, to groan and shudder at the unendurable contrast. Shall this bosom that has been the seat of affections so dishonorable, be inter-penetrated with the very love of God, love to all that are the fitting objects of love, love ineffable and immaculate?
My salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ, my Saviour, came to earth to make an atonement, proclaim his gospel, establish his church, pour out his Spirit. This was the Alpha of my salvation. I look for him now from heaven, in glory, to complete in me his wondrous work, and present me faultless, transfigured, angelic, before his Father’s throne. This will be the Omega.
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