The Exquisite Graciousness of Christ - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7

The Exquisite Graciousness of Christ
How wonderful Christ is! How He watches to bless us! Is there something that is the one care of your heart? And is that one care half as much to you as you are to Christ? Do not think that His eye has not been on each one of us today. We little appreciate how He looks on us as those given Him of the Father, a people for whom He has so well done what He has done, a people so identified with His own heart’s affections.

Ah! Christ loves to hear His people speak of Him and for Him. He desires that a people down here should have something to say for Him, that they should be practical witnesses for Him down here. He has a way of accomplishing this, which He distinctly will reveal if any are practically His servants. John had it, and it is the same with us now. You may have been dwelling on a passage of Scripture, speaking a word for Him, and did not Christ come in? You knew not how, but it was Christ—Christ willing to stoop down to the lowest extremity of His servant’s weakness, to give that servant power to testify for Him.

It is very blessed to see littleness like that of an infant in saints like John and Paul, to see them upheld by Christ every step of the way—to see Christ taking occasion of our littleness to show the exquisite graciousness that is connected with His divine glory. We often think of His glory but neglect to think of His grace in that glory; everything characterizing the Lord is grace!

All hangs on Himself, whether to sustain faith or to lead forth praise.

G. V. Wigram

Our wants are known to Jesus; all fullness dwells in Him:
He healeth all diseases, who did our souls redeem.
We tell our griefs to Jesus, our burdens and our cares;
He from them all releases, who all our sorrow shares.

H. Bonar