Luke 9:62

REFLECTIONS

Think, my soul, of the vast honour, the high privilege, the distinguished dignity of the apostles of thy God and Savior! Sent forth, as his ambassadors, to call his redeemed Israel to the blessings of reconciliation and peace! Oh! ye servants of the Lord, what an honour was your's to cast out devils, to heal the sick, and preach the Gospel! But what an awful contrast in the character of Herod! And yet who that had seen the poverty of the poor fishermen of Galilee, and beheld the purpled luxuries of the Tetrarch, but would have connected everything blessed with the latter, and misery with the former? See, Reader, how Jesus instantly supplied a wilderness with food: and think, then, how soon the wilderness frames of his people he can make to blossom as the rose! Oh! my soul, what a view was that which the disciples Peter, John, and James, had of Jesus in the Mount of Transfiguration! But what was this, in point of glory, to that which all the church of God will see, and thou among the number, when he shall come in the mount Zion, to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe? Behold Christ's power in healing the lunatic. Behold how Jesus predicted his sufferings when he should be crucified in weakness. Oh! for grace, that all the precious sayings of Jesus may sink down into my ears! And grant, dearest Lord, that while Samaritans refuse to receive thee; and the dead, in trespasses and sins, are too busily employed in burying their dead, to find time or inclination to follow thee, I may be found with having put my hand to the gospel plough; and never to look back, but follow my Lord in the regeneration, and enter with him into his kingdom.