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Matthew 5:13a : “you are the salt of the earth”
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Sunday, May 17, 2009, 9:30 PM
This is really beautiful. Do read it =)"Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee." -- Isaiah 41:9
If we have received the grace of God in our hearts, its practicaleffect has been to make us God's servants. We may be unfaithfulservants, we certainly are unprofitable ones, but yet, blessed be hisname, we are his servants, wearing his livery, feeding at his table,and obeying his commands. We were once the servants of sin, but he whomade us free has now taken us into his family and taught us obedienceto his will. We do not serve our Master perfectly, but we would if wecould. As we hear God's voice saying unto us, "Thou art my servant," wecan answer with David, "I am thy servant; thou hast loosed my bonds."But the Lord calls us not only his servants, but his chosen ones-"Ihave chosen thee." We have not chosen him first, but he hath chosen us.If we be God's servants, we were not always so; to sovereign grace thechange must be ascribed. The eye of sovereignty singled us out, and thevoice of unchanging grace declared, "I have loved thee with aneverlasting love." Long ere time began or space was created God hadwritten upon his heart the names of his elect people, had predestinatedthem to be conformed unto the image of his Son, and ordained them heirsof all the fulness of his love, his grace, and his glory. What comfortis here! Has the Lord loved us so long, and will he yet cast us away?He knew how stiffnecked we should be, he understood that our heartswere evil, and yet he made the choice. Ah! our Saviour is no ficklelover. He doth not feel enchanted for awhile with some gleams of beautyfrom his church's eye, and then afterwards cast her off because of herunfaithfulness. Nay, he married her in old eternity; and it is writtenof Jehovah, "He hateth putting away." The eternal choice is a bond uponour gratitude and upon his faithfulness which neither can disown.