Spurgeon: August AM
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"He hath commanded His covenant for ever."
--Psalms 111:9
The Lord's people delight in the covenant itself. It is an
unfailing source of consolation to them so often as the Holy
Spirit leads them into its banqueting house and waves its banner
of love. They delight to contemplate the antiquity of that
covenant, remembering that before the day-star knew its place,
or planets ran their round, the interests of the saints were
made secure in Christ Jesus. It is peculiarly pleasing to them
to remember the sureness of the covenant, while meditating
upon "the sure mercies of David." They delight to celebrate it
as "signed, and sealed, and ratified, in all things ordered
well." It often makes their hearts dilate with joy to think of
its immutability , as a covenant which neither time nor
eternity, life nor death, shall ever be able to violate--a
covenant as old as eternity and as everlasting as the Rock of
ages. They rejoice also to feast upon the fulness of this
covenant, for they see in it all things provided for them. God
is their portion, Christ their companion, the Spirit their
Comforter, earth their lodge, and heaven their home. They see in
it an inheritance reserved and entailed to every soul possessing
an interest in its ancient and eternal deed of gift. Their eyes
sparkled when they saw it as a treasure-trove in the Bible; but
oh! how their souls were gladdened when they saw in the last
will and testament of their divine kinsman, that it was
bequeathed to them! More especially it is the pleasure of God's
people to contemplate the graciousness of this covenant. They
see that the law was made void because it was a covenant of
works and depended upon merit, but this they perceive to be
enduring because grace is the basis, grace the condition, grace
the strain, grace the bulwark, grace the foundation, grace the
topstone. The covenant is a treasury of wealth, a granary of
food, a fountain of life, a store-house of salvation, a charter
of peace, and a haven of joy.