September 12 | Morning

0:007 September 12th, morning. The Lord is a jealous and avenging God. May him, Chapter 1, Verse 2. Believer, your Lord is very jealous of your love. Did he choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his own blood? He cannot endure that you should think you are your own or that you belong to this world. He loved you, with such a love that he would not remain in heaven without you. He would soon die then have you perish, and he cannot endure that anything should stand between your hearts love and himself. He is very jealous of your trust. He will not permit you to trust in yourself. He cannot stand the thought of you hewing out broken systems and neglecting the over flowing fountain that is always free to you.

1:03When we lean upon him, he is glad. But when we transfer our dependence to another, when we rely upon our own wisdom or the wisdom of a friend, worst of all, when we trust in any works of our own, he is displeased and will chasing us, that he may bring us to himself. He is also very jealous of our company. There should be no one with whom we converse so much as with Jesus. To remain in him alone, this is true love, but to commune with the world to find sufficient satisfaction in our earthly comforts, to even prefer the company of our fellow Christians to secret fellowship with him. This grieves our jealous Lord. He longs to have us abide in him and enjoy constant fellowship with himself. And many of the trials that he sends us are for the purpose of weaning our hearts from created things and fixing them more closely on him who created everything.

2:09Let this jealousy that would keep us near to Christ also be a comfort to us. If he loves us so much as to care about our love, we may be sure that he will allow nothing to harm us and will protect us from all our enemies. Today we have graced today to keep our hearts in holy purity for Christ alone, with sacred jealousy, closing our eyes to all the fascinations of the world.