Evening
Time: 6:39 PM PST
"Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor." --Psalm 68:10
All God's gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen. He
anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which He has treasured up in
Christ Jesus, He provides of His goodness for the poor. You may trust Him for
all the necessities that can occur, for He has infallibly foreknown every one of
them. He can say of us in all conditions, "I knew that thou wouldst be this and
that." A man goes a journey across the desert, and when he has made a day's
advance, and pitched his tent, he discovers that he wants many comforts and
necessaries which he has not brought in his baggage. "Ah!" says he, "I did not
foresee this: if I had this journey to go again, I should bring these things
with me, so necessary to my comfort." But God has marked with prescient eye all
the requirements of His poor wandering children, and when those needs occur,
supplies are ready. It is goodness which He has prepared for the poor in heart,
goodness and goodness only. "My grace is sufficient for thee." "As thy days, so
shall thy strength be."
Reader, is your heart heavy this evening? God knew it would be; the comfort
which your heart wants is treasured in the sweet assurance of the text. You are
poor and needy, but He has thought upon you, and has the exact blessing which
you require in store for you. Plead the promise, believe it and obtain its
fulfillment. Do you feel that you never were so consciously vile as you are now?
Behold, the crimson fountain is open still, with all its former efficacy, to
wash your sin away. Never shall you come into such a position that Christ cannot
aid you. No pinch shall ever arrive in your spiritual affairs in which Jesus
Christ shall not be equal to the emergency, for your history has all been
foreknown and provided for in Jesus.