Isaiah 33:24

REFLECTIONS

BLESSED Lord! I would pass by all other reflections, profitable as they might otherwise be, if I had not thee in view, to look at my Lord Jesus, under some of those most sweet and precious revelations which thy servant the Prophet has given of thee in this chapter. Here I see thee, Lord, the true, the lawful king in Zion! Here I behold thee, the glorious Lord in the midst of thy people! Yes, blessed Jesus, thou wilt be indeed, and thou last been in all ages, a place of broad rivers and streams. For what though thy Church, like Jerusalem of old, hath no navigable seas, nor gallant ships, nor frontiers of her own, to keep her from the common foe; yet if Jesus, in his own person be all these, and more, who shall attack, or dare approach to hurt? What proud galley with oars shall row to the hurt of thine anointed, while Jesus is himself the broad river, and streams of waters? Oh! precious Lord! how eternally secure must they be, who have a God in Christ for their judge; a God in Christ for their lawgiver; and a God in Christ for their king! Take me, dear Lord, under thy protection, and be thou to me, Jesus: for then I shall no longer say, I am sick, when thou hast forgiven, and taken away all iniquity, and cast all my sins into the depths of the sea.