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"That He may set him with princes."
--Psalm 113:8
Our spiritual privileges are of the highest order. "Among
princes" is the place of select society . "Truly our fellowship
is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ." Speak of
select society, there is none like this! "We are a chosen
generation, a peculiar people, a royal priesthood." "We are come
unto the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose
names are written in heaven." The saints have courtly
audience : princes have admittance to royalty when common people
must stand afar off. The child of God has free access to the
inner courts of heaven. "For through Him we both have access by
one Spirit unto the Father." "Let us come boldly," says the
apostle, " to the throne of the heavenly grace." Among princes
there is abundant wealth , but what is the abundance of princes
compared with the riches of believers? for "all things are
yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's." "He that
spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how
shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" Princes
have peculiar power . A prince of heaven's empire has great
influence: he wields a sceptre in his own domain; he sits upon
Jesus' throne, for "He hath made us kings and priests unto God,
and we shall reign for ever and ever." We reign over the united
kingdom of time and eternity. Princes, again, have special
honour . We may look down upon all earth-born dignity from the
eminence upon which grace has placed us. For what is human
grandeur to this, "He hath raised us up together, and made us
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus"? We share the
honour of Christ, and compared with this, earthly splendours are
not worth a thought. Communion with Jesus is a richer gem than
ever glittered in imperial diadem. Union with the Lord is a
coronet of beauty outshining all the blaze of imperial pomp.