MY FAITH SHALL ABBA, FATHER, CRY
John Eadie, D. D., LL.D.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Christians have a Heavenly spouse - Jesus Christ - the King of kings and Lord of lords
Imagine a cost of $150,000 for flowers at
your wedding!
Imagine getting to choose which carriage
and horses will regally transport you to a formal wedding reception given in
your honor where 600 guests will be present!
Imagine having 200 guests at a less formal
wedding reception!
Imagine having commemorative designed
china to celebrate your wedding!
But can such imaginative thoughts actually
become a reality in wedding preparations and then on into the "happily
ever after" life of married couples?
Well, when the bridegroom's name is Prince
Harry of England…..when the bridegroom's grandmother is Queen Elizabeth
II…..when the bridegroom's father is Prince Charles - the next in line to be
king of England…..
No wonder hearts flutter at thoughts of a
royal marriage! No wonder hearts beat a trifle faster when thinking of the
advantages of belonging to royalty!
However, Christians must keep things in
perspective because we DO belong to royalty though not by an earthly
birth nor by an earthly marriage.
Christians have a Heavenly spouse - Jesus
Christ - the King of kings and Lord of lords - whose reign will never end and
whose wealth, power, dominion, etc., surpasses any human imagination
(even the imagination of any royal individual).
Also, Christ's love for us is not of our
imagination. He declared and proved His love for us when He left heaven's
splendors; took the form of human flesh; and as the sacrificial Lamb, paid our
"wages of sin," which was death, by dying Himself on the cross.
And since Christians are no longer under
God's wrath because we
have been saved by grace through faith, no earthly royal personage can rival
the realities Christians have because of Christ's love and sacrifice.
Actually, the Christian's reality is
beyond any imagination because:
Our sin debt has been paid!
God is our Father!
The Holy Spirit indwells us!
Angels are ministering spirits to us!
And Christ mystically has become our
bridegroom (among other things)!
Christians also have in 1 Corinthians 2:9
a statement from God more precious than from any king or queen: "Eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him."
Then in Hebrews 11:16, Christians have
another equally precious declaration:
"But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God
is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a
city."
Talk about imagination! Christians can't
even imagine what God has prepared for those that love him! And in reality we
can't even imagine what it means when God says he won't be ashamed to be called
our God.
So, come and read some of the writings of
authors from the past. Let them explain from the Bible some of what Christ is
to every believer, learn about the marriage feast spoken of in Rev. 19:9, learn
about going out to meet the bridegroom in Matthew 25:6, etc. Then may your soul
weep over His sufferings and yet rejoice over the joy each believer is to the
heart of Jesus Christ, your Heavenly Bridegroom!
M.
Robbins
Monday, July 17, 2017
Into Thine Hand I Commit My Spirit
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou has redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. Psalms 31:5
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Luke 23:46
Into thine hand I commit my spirit. These living words of David were our Lord's
dying words.....
Observe, the object of the good man's solicitude in life and death is not his body or
his estate, but his spirit; this is his jewel, his secret treasure; if this be safe, all is well.
See what he does with his pearl! He commits it to the hand of his God; it came from him,
it is his own, he has aforetime sustained it, he is able to keep it, and it is most fit that he
should receive it. All things are safe in Jehovah's hands; what we entrust to the Lord will be
secure, both now and in that day of days towards which we are hastening. Without
reservation the good man yields himself to his heavenly Father's hand; it is enough for him
to be there; it is peaceful living and glorious dying to repose in the care of heaven. At all
times we should commit and continue to commit our all to Jesus' sacred care, then,
though life may hang on a thread, and adversities may multiply as the sands of the sea,
our soul shall dwell at ease, and delight itself in quiet resting places. Thou hast redeemed
me, O Lord God of truth. Redemption is a solid base for confidence. David had not known Calvary as we have done, but temporal redemption cheered him; and shall not eternal
redemption yet more sweetly console us? Past deliverances are strong pleas for present
assistance. What the Lord has done he will do again, for he changes not.
He is a God of veracity, faithful to his promises, and gracious to his saints; he will not
turn away from his people.
C. H. Spurgeon
.....Is it not very amazing, dear Friends, that the words which Jesus uttered on the Cross
you may still continue to use? You may catch up their echo and not only when you come
to die, but tonight, tomorrow morning and as long as you are alive, you may still repeat the
text the Master quoted, and say, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit."
That is to say, first, let us cheerfully entrust our souls to God and feel that they are quite
safe in His hands. Our spirit is the noblest part of our being; our body is only the husk, our
spirit is the living kernel, so let us put it into God's keeping. Some of you have never yet
done that, so I invite you to do it now. It is the act of faith which saves the soul, that act
which a man performs when he says, "I trust myself to God as He reveals Himself in Christ
Jesus. I cannot keep myself, but He can keep me and, by the precious blood of Christ
He can cleanse me. So I just take my spirit and give it over into the great Father's hands."
You never really live till you do that! All that comes before that act of full surrender
is death! But when you have once trusted Christ, then you have truly begun to live.
And every day, as long as you live, take care that you repeat this process and
cheerfully leave yourselves in God's hands without any reserve. That is to say, give yourself up to God—your body, to be healthy or to be sick, to be long-lived or to be suddenly cut off. Your soul and spirit, give them, also, up to God, to be made happy or to be made sad,
just as He pleases. Give Your whole self up to Him and say to Him, "My Father, make me
rich or make me poor, give me sight or make me blind. Let me have all my senses or
take them away. Make me famous or leave me to be obscure. I give myself up to You—into
Your hands I commit my spirit. I will no longer exercise my own choice, but You shall choose
my inheritance for me. My times are in Your hands."
.....Christ has redeemed you and, therefore, you belong to Him. If I am a redeemed
man and I ask God to take care of me, I am but asking the King to take care of one
of His own jewels—a jewel that cost Him the blood of His heart!
"Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of Truth." Would He be the God of Truth
if He began with redemption and ended with destruction—if He began by giving His Son
to die for us and then kept back other mercies which we daily need to bring us to Heaven?
No, the gift of His Son is the pledge that He will save His people from their sins and
bring them home to Glory—and He will do it.....
C. H. Spurgeon
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands
I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Luke 23:46
Into thine hand I commit my spirit. These living words of David were our Lord's
dying words.....
Observe, the object of the good man's solicitude in life and death is not his body or
his estate, but his spirit; this is his jewel, his secret treasure; if this be safe, all is well.
See what he does with his pearl! He commits it to the hand of his God; it came from him,
it is his own, he has aforetime sustained it, he is able to keep it, and it is most fit that he
should receive it. All things are safe in Jehovah's hands; what we entrust to the Lord will be
secure, both now and in that day of days towards which we are hastening. Without
reservation the good man yields himself to his heavenly Father's hand; it is enough for him
to be there; it is peaceful living and glorious dying to repose in the care of heaven. At all
times we should commit and continue to commit our all to Jesus' sacred care, then,
though life may hang on a thread, and adversities may multiply as the sands of the sea,
our soul shall dwell at ease, and delight itself in quiet resting places. Thou hast redeemed
me, O Lord God of truth. Redemption is a solid base for confidence. David had not known Calvary as we have done, but temporal redemption cheered him; and shall not eternal
redemption yet more sweetly console us? Past deliverances are strong pleas for present
assistance. What the Lord has done he will do again, for he changes not.
He is a God of veracity, faithful to his promises, and gracious to his saints; he will not
turn away from his people.
C. H. Spurgeon
**********
.....Is it not very amazing, dear Friends, that the words which Jesus uttered on the Cross
you may still continue to use? You may catch up their echo and not only when you come
to die, but tonight, tomorrow morning and as long as you are alive, you may still repeat the
text the Master quoted, and say, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit."
That is to say, first, let us cheerfully entrust our souls to God and feel that they are quite
safe in His hands. Our spirit is the noblest part of our being; our body is only the husk, our
spirit is the living kernel, so let us put it into God's keeping. Some of you have never yet
done that, so I invite you to do it now. It is the act of faith which saves the soul, that act
which a man performs when he says, "I trust myself to God as He reveals Himself in Christ
Jesus. I cannot keep myself, but He can keep me and, by the precious blood of Christ
He can cleanse me. So I just take my spirit and give it over into the great Father's hands."
You never really live till you do that! All that comes before that act of full surrender
is death! But when you have once trusted Christ, then you have truly begun to live.
And every day, as long as you live, take care that you repeat this process and
cheerfully leave yourselves in God's hands without any reserve. That is to say, give yourself up to God—your body, to be healthy or to be sick, to be long-lived or to be suddenly cut off. Your soul and spirit, give them, also, up to God, to be made happy or to be made sad,
just as He pleases. Give Your whole self up to Him and say to Him, "My Father, make me
rich or make me poor, give me sight or make me blind. Let me have all my senses or
take them away. Make me famous or leave me to be obscure. I give myself up to You—into
Your hands I commit my spirit. I will no longer exercise my own choice, but You shall choose
my inheritance for me. My times are in Your hands."
.....Christ has redeemed you and, therefore, you belong to Him. If I am a redeemed
man and I ask God to take care of me, I am but asking the King to take care of one
of His own jewels—a jewel that cost Him the blood of His heart!
"Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of Truth." Would He be the God of Truth
if He began with redemption and ended with destruction—if He began by giving His Son
to die for us and then kept back other mercies which we daily need to bring us to Heaven?
No, the gift of His Son is the pledge that He will save His people from their sins and
bring them home to Glory—and He will do it.....
C. H. Spurgeon
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