Chosen By God

Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest medicine. Those who doubt the doctrines of grace, or who cast them into the shade, miss the richest grape clusters of Eshcol (Num. 13:24); they lose the wines on the deposits well refined, the fat things full of marrow. There is no balm in Gilead (Jer. 8:22) comparable to it. If the honey in Jonathan’s wood when but touched enlightened the eyes (1 Sam. 14:27), this is honey which will enlighten your heart to love and learn the mysteries of the kingdom of God. Eat, and fear not an over-indulgence; live upon this choice delicacy, and fear not that it will be too delicate a diet. Meat from the King’s table will hurt none of his court. Desire to have your mind enlarged, that you may comprehend more and more the eternal, everlasting, discriminating love of God. When you have mounted as high as election, tarry on its sister mount, the covenant of grace. Covenant engagements are the fortress of the great rock behind which we lie entrenched; covenant engagements with the surety, Christ Jesus, are the quiet resting-places of trembling spirits.

“His oath, his covenant, his blood,

Support me in the raging flood;

When every earthly prop gives way,

This still is all my strength and stay.”

If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that he would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the sacrifice of his soul; then, unless God himself becomes unfaithful, unless Jesus ceases to be the truth, my soul, you are safe. When David danced before the ark, he told Michal that election made him do so (2 Sam. 6:21). Come, my soul, exult before the God of grace and leap for joy of heart.