[Songs in the Night - April 1]
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant. Psalm 25:14
THAT wonderful covenant, shown to all who are
seeking the Word in honesty and sincerity, assures us
that as our dear Redeemer humbled himself for our
and the world's redemption and has been highly exalted,
so if similarly faithful we may suffer with him
now and by and by share his glory and be co-laborers
with him in the kingdom which is to bless all the families
of the earth.
O, what riches of grace! What
loving-kindness!
What tender mercy!
What evidences
of divine wisdom, skill, justice, love, and power!
How
this view of the Only Begotten of the Father shows him
to us as our Redeemer and also as our Lord and Head,
who by and by, according to the promise, will present
us as his bride, blameless and irreprovable before the
Father in love.
Viewed from this standpoint, the
recognition of Jesus, our dear Redeemer, the Sent of
God, the Savior of the world, is not in derogation of
the command of the text, "Jehovah, our God, is one,"
for the apostle assures us that according to the divine
authority all should reverence the Son even as they
reverence the Father—not reverence him as the Father,
but reverence him as the Son whom the Father
has appointed heir of all things, and who, as the Father's
associate, is to bless all the families of the earth,
and who a thousand years later will deliver up the
kingdom to God, even the Father, that he may be all
in all. Z'07-263 R4052:1 (Hymn 154)