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"I remember thee."
--Jeremiah 2:2
Let us note that Christ delights to think upon His Church,
and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its
nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind
continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot look too
often upon that face which we love; we desire always to have our
precious things in our sight. It is even so with our Lord Jesus.
From all eternity "His delights were with the sons of men"; His
thoughts rolled onward to the time when His elect should be born
into the world; He viewed them in the mirror of His
foreknowledge. "In Thy book," He says, "all my members were
written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there
was none of them" ( Ps. 139:16). When the world was set upon its
pillars, He was there, and He set the bounds of the people
according to the number of the children of Israel. Many a time
before His incarnation, He descended to this lower earth in the
similitude of a man; on the plains of Mamre (Gen. 18), by the
brook of Jabbok ( Gen. 32:24-30), beneath the walls of Jericho
( Josh. 5:13), and in the fiery furnace of Babylon ( Dan. 3:19,
25), the Son of Man visited His people. Because His soul
delighted in them, He could not rest away from them, for His
heart longed after them. Never were they absent from His heart,
for He had written their names upon His hands, and graven them
upon His side. As the breastplate containing the names of the
tribes of Israel was the most brilliant ornament worn by the
high priest, so the names of Christ's elect were His most
precious jewels, and glittered on His heart. We may often
forget to meditate upon the perfections of our Lord, but He
never ceases to remember us. Let us chide ourselves for past
forgetfulness, and pray for grace ever to bear Him in fondest
remembrance. Lord, paint upon the eyeballs of my soul the image
of Thy Son.