Deborah’s poem above expresses the sound Biblical truth that our soul longs for the comfort and peace found only in Christ. Every “Christian” goes through Dry Seasons even the truly elect of God. It is how we handle those dry spells that define our Christianity to the world around us.
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT
—Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me?—John 4:9.
PAUSE, my soul, over this question of the Lord Jesus, which he put to Philip—figure to thyself that the Lord saith the same to thee; and now see what answer thou wilt give him. It is a great question: and if thou art able to answer it with a—“Yea, Lord;” and, from the blessed Spirit’s teaching, thou truly knowest Jesus to be what the scripture saith he is, and canst as truly, from the receiving that testimony which God hath given of his dear and ever-blessed Son, set to thy seal that God is true; then art thou truly happy, and mayest humbly take to thyself a portion in that blessedness, which the Lord Jesus pronounced upon Peter from the same grace manifested: “Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Pause then and inquire, Dost thou know who Christ is? Art thou perfectly satisfied, my soul, of the Oneness, in nature, in essence, in glory, in will, in worship, in work, in design, in attributes, perfections, power, sovereignty; in short, in all and every thing which constitutes the Godhead between the Father, and the Son, and Spirit? Oh, yes, my soul cries out, I do, through the teaching of my God, most firmly, heartily, and cordially believe that Jesus is One with the Father over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Pause again, my soul, and say, Dost thou as firmly and heartily believe that thy Jesus, who, in the divine nature is One with the Father, is no less in the human nature, which he united to the Godhead for the purposes of salvation, one with thee, bone of thy bone, and flesh of thy flesh? Doth this make an equal article in thy creed? Oh, yes; I am, through the same divine teaching, as fully and perfectly convinced that He who is, and was, and ever will be, the uncreated Word, was made flesh, and thereby became the true Emmanuel, God with us, God in our nature. Pause once more, my soul, and say, Dost thou believe that, by this union of God and man, Jesus became the true, the only, the blessed Mediator, the Christ of God, the Sent of God, the Sealed of God, the Anointed of God, the Lamb of God, the Word of God, the Wisdom of God, and the Power of God, for salvation to every one that believeth? Bow down, my soul, with unceasing thanksgivings and praise, to the Author and Giver of faith, for the stupendous discoveries he hath made to thee of himself, while thou cryest out in transports of rejoicing—Lord! all this I believe; and am perfectly satisfied that thou art One with the Father, and art in the Father, and the Father in thee. And while thou thus givest in thy testimony of the Lord Jesus, wilt thou not, my soul, at the same time, under a conscious sense of the distinguishing mercy, cry out also with the astonished disciple—“Lord, how is it that thou hast thus manifested thyself unto me, and not unto the world?”
Robert Hawker, The Poor Man’s Morning Portion (New York; Pittsburg: Robert Carter, 1845), 234–235.
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