the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 3
Jeremiah 51:5—Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of Hosts.
Yes, indeed, our life has been filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. We see it now. As we look back upon the past with the light of the present reflected upon it, we see how every day has added its quota of transgression. How bitterly we must have grieved the Holy Ghost! How terribly have made the Holy One suffer! Do you wonder that Jesus still appears in heaven as a Lamb as it had been slain!
But He has not forsaken! As again we review our life, how abundant is the evidence that we have not been forsaken. Forsaken!—Then God’s right hand would lose its cunning. Forsaken!—Then the tides that flow through the heart of God would have to leap backward. Forsaken!—Then the eternal purposes would have to be frustrated. Forsaken!—Then the Divine word would be forfeited, and the Divine Son would go without his meed. Sin is mighty; but there is one thing it cannot do, it cannot make God forsake those whom He has adopted into his family. Sin dragged the archangel to the pit; but it can never wrench the believer out of the hand of God. Sin brought Christ from the throne to the cross; but it can never cause God to leave, or cease to care for, his own.
Does this lead you to presumption? Do you say, Then I may do as I like? Ah, beware! Those that talk thus have not the mark of his children. The child loves with the love that fears to grieve God, more than to be forsaken of Him. "The love of Christ constrains me to forsake these things. I have long enough crucified my beloved Savior with my sins. His love constrains me to renounce all that grieves Him, and live for Him alone."
