"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding." Proverbs 3:13

To understand such a portion as this intelligently and experimentally, is to glory indeed in a Covenant JEHOVAH, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He is the alone glory of all those whom He in love pitched upon before all worlds, whom He has redeemed to Himself by the precious blood of the Son of His love, whom He brings to Himself by the grace and power of His Indwelling Spirit. These are brought into the loving enjoyment of Himself by the testimony of grace which He has made sure to all the seed-royal of heaven.

This is opened up in that precious Scripture: "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and His covenant to make them know it." (Ps. 25:14) You will see that I have quoted this, not as you read it in your Bible; but as the honest translators have rendered it in the margin. Because His heart is ever with His elect and redeemed people, and according to His purpose of eternal love, and His secret of unchanging mercy in Christ Jesus, "He will show them His covenant." These were precious words flowing from the exercised heart of David as he was nearing the end of his strange, eventful life, "Although my house be not so with God, yet He that made with me everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow." (2 Sam. 23:5)

This covenant is so designed that all interested in it shall be blessedly made to know it. Previous to this they are all strangers to the covenant, ignorant of God, and without hope in the world. (Eph. 2:12) But He would not, could not, leave them in such a destitute condition. Though they were bent on having nothing to do with Him, He would have everything to do with them, and for them.

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What is it that truly satisfies the longing soul in the land of the living? It is God's revelation of Christ in the covenant we are one with Christ, and Christ hesitates not to acknowledge His oneness with us.

"In union with the Lamb,
From condemnation free,
The Saints from everlasting were,
And shall for ever be."



Thomas Bradbury, 1874
“In Christ Jesus”, excerpt
http://truegospel.net/Bradbury/018.htm
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