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The LORD is near - Saturday, July 10, 2022
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

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The Source of Praise

To Him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in His blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father: to Him be the glory and the might to the ages of ages. Amen.
Revelation 1:5-6

The Source of Praise
What? This One who knows the secrets of the Father's heart, do I know that He loves me? Did He die for me? I had nothing but my sins when He looked upon me. Was His blood competent to take out all their crimson dye? And is God satisfied? Will God find fault with that work as inadequate? Oh no! He looked upon me, the chief of sinners, and I am to be a specimen of the cleansing power of that blood. Oh, what love that is of His! How aggressive, how mighty in its power against all that is contrary to it, as it flows into the heart of a saint! How it enables one to look up and say, I know You, Lord Jesus up there, as the One who loved me in all my misery, who interposed Yourself between me and my sins, and has given me a title to be a kingly priest to God and Your Father, and has made me know it now.

How is it that there is so little praise? Because there is so little appreciation of Christ and of the work of Christ, of how that blood has cleansed us and given us a place in glory. Why is there not willingness in saints to strip themselves for Christ, as Jonathan did for David (1 Sam. 18:4)? Why is there not that impulsive power of love flowing out in praise, as it did in John, when His heart welled forth, "To Him who loves us" (Rev. 1:5)?

G. V. Wigram
Were the whole realm of nature mine,

That were an offering far too small;

Love so amazing, so divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

I. Watts

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