Exodus 25:40

REFLECTIONS

GRACIOUS God! help me by thy divine teachings, to behold the wondrous things of thy law, and to admire and adore thy gracious condescension in the appointment of the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the mercy, seat, and the ark of the testimony, and the table, and the show-bread. Precious Jesus! may it be my happiness, like Paul, while beholding these shadows of the good things that were then to come, to see that the substance and the body is Christ. Do angels desire to look into those mysteries of the kingdom? Lord, make me earnest to know more and more of thee, and of that love of God which passeth knowledge, that I may be filled with all the fullness of God. And oh! do thou come and frequently commune with me from off thy mercy-seat! There do thou meet me, and speak comfortably to me. Let Jesus be everything to me, the mercy-seat of propitiation, the ark of the divine presence to bless me, the table and bread of life to feast my soul, at which I may sit down here below in sweet communion, until I come to sit down with him forever at the table which is above. Be this my portion, dearest Lord, that I may be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thine house, and drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life.