Micah 1:16

REFLECTIONS

SOME may not easily discover the Lord Jesus in this scripture. But in the poverty and misery of our fallen nature, God the Holy Ghost is not unfrequently preaching Christ. For Reader! suffer me to ask, by what more persuasive and powerful means can the Lord Jesus be recommended to our hearts, than by showing us our misery and ruin out of Christ? When you and I are taught feelingly and experimentally what sin is; and that in us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing; surely it must endear Christ, and induce a sense of our want of him. Oh! how much will a soul long for Jesus, when led to see that without him we are lost forever. Hence the Prophet's vision is not confined to Samaria and Jerusalem; all people, yea, all the earth are called upon to the charge. The Lord grant, Reader, that you and I, in the Prophet's call, may feel interested, so as to impress the necessity and suitableness of the Lord Jesus, and that the Holy Ghost may bring him home to our hearts, and form him there, the hope of glory!