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The believer answers, “By grace!”
Salvation is of grace because salvation is of the Lord. It is a thoroughly divine work!
From election to regeneration, and from good works to assurance, Wonder of Grace is a clear, beautiful explanation of each of the facets of grace in the lives of God’s people.
“And God made two great lights…the lesser light to rule the night.”—Genesis 1:16 “And God...
Have I learned? Learned to be content with whatsoever may be my lot?
The answer to this pointed, definitely personal question the word of God in this passage would elicit from our hearts.
Let us not overlook two features of the text. First, it is a personal profession. Second, it speaks of contentment as a lesson that must be learned. As a personal confession it purposes to have a place in our own hearts and upon our own lips, so that we have really not heard the word of God until we, you and I can repeat it after the apostle with personal application: I have learned to be content with whatsoever may be my state.
“For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.”—Hebrews 13:14
Christian, press on!
At the end of your way, there is a city to come—the city that has foundations, prepared for you from before the foundations of the world by your God.
It is your goal.
Until it is reached and you have entered through its pearly gates, you may not, you cannot, you must not tarry. Onward you must go; ever onward you must press, never once tarrying or abiding, never fearfully or hesitantly clinging to the things you might meet on your pilgrim’s journey.
Does not the pilgrim dwell in a tent?
He has no city.
In a city one abides, digs foundations, builds firmly to erect a lasting and permanent dwelling place, a continuing home. There are the ties that bind, the treasures one loves, the joys one seeks. There is one’s life. In a tent, however, one tarries but for a night, to rest and recuperate, in order to pull up the stakes at daybreak and press forward and travel onward until the final goal is reached.
Christ is and was the king...