Spurgeon: May AM
* 05/18/AM
"In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye
are complete in Him."
--Colossians 2:9,Colossians 2:10
All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our
disposal. All the fulness of the Godhead, whatever that
marvellous term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He
cannot endow us with the attributes of Deity; but He has done
all that can be done, for He has made even His divine power and
Godhead subservient to our salvation. His omnipotence,
omniscience, omnipresence, immutability and infallibility, are
all combined for our defence. Arise, believer, and behold the
Lord Jesus yoking the whole of His divine Godhead to the chariot
of salvation! How vast His grace, how firm His faithfulness, how
unswerving His immutability, how infinite His power, how
limitless His knowledge! All these are by the Lord Jesus made
the pillars of the temple of salvation; and all, without
diminution of their infinity, are covenanted to us as our
perpetual inheritance. The fathomless love of the Saviour's
heart is every drop of it ours; every sinew in the arm of might,
every jewel in the crown of majesty, the immensity of divine
knowledge, and the sternness of divine justice, all are ours,
and shall be employed for us. The whole of Christ, in His
adorable character as the Son of God, is by Himself made over to
us most richly to enjoy. His wisdom is our direction, His
knowledge our instruction, His power our protection, His justice
our surety, His love our comfort, His mercy our solace, and His
immutability our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens the
recesses of the Mount of God and bids us dig in its mines for
the hidden treasures. "All, all, all are yours," saith He, "be
ye satisfied with favour and full of the goodness of the Lord."
Oh! how sweet thus to behold Jesus, and to call upon Him with
the certain confidence that in seeking the interposition of His
love or power, we are but asking for that which He has already
faithfully promised.