CHRIST ALL AND IN ALL. CHRIST THE SAVIOUR. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I Tim. i. 15. Remember Jesus for us is all our righteousness before a holy God, and Jesus in us is all our strength in an ungodly world. McCheyne. "I am nothing," is my plea, Saviour, when I cry to Thee; Naked, helpless, in distress, not one claim to righteousness. "I have nothing,” saving sin, wrath without and guilt within. "Fit for nothing, saving hell;" never fit with Thee to dwell. "Is there nothing" I can plead, in this state of awful need? Jesus, at Thy Cross I fall: Thee I take, my "All in all !” "All in all," Thy Blood my plea, Thy Righteousness to cover me; Pardon, peace, eternal bliss: what is needed more than this? "I am nothing," yet to me "everything" is offered free. Lord, before Thy Throne I fall, owning Jesus "All in all." Unknown. WHAT JESUS IS ABLE" TO DO. ABLE to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. 2 Cor. ix. 8. ABLE to succour them that are tempted. Heb. ii. 18. ABLE to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. Jude 24. ABLE also to save them TO THE UTTERMOST that come unto God by him. What he has promised, ABLE also to perform. Heb. vii. 25. ABLE to make you stand. Rom. iv. 21. Rom. xiv. 4. ABLE to keep that which I have committed unto him. 2 Tim. i. 12. ABLE to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified. Acts xx. 32. ABLE to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Ephes. iii. 20. ABLE to subdue all things unto himself. Phil. iii. 21. Believe ye that I am able to do this? Matt. ix. 28. An old writer asks why Christ is called so often the “Lamb of God," and not the ox or the ram of God? The reply is, Because these were not offered "every day," whereas the lamb was a daily offering, and therefore better fitted to proclaim Christ's Blood as always ready for use. A. A. Bonar. "JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSETH BY." Watcher, who watchest by the bed of pain, Stranger, afar from thy native land, Whom no one takes with a brother's hand; Sad one, in secret, bending low, A dart in thy breast, that the world may not know, Striving the favour of God to win, Asking His pardon for days of sin; Mourner, who sits in the churchyard lone, Look |