An inexhaustible mine of wealth!
and precious promises!" 2 Peter 1:4
The promises of God are an inexhaustible mine
of wealth to the believer. Happy is it for him if
he knows how to search out their secret veins,
and enrich himself with their hidden treasures.
The promises of GOD are a
spiritual armory, containing all kinds
of offensive and defensive weapons.
Blessed is he who has learned . . .
to enter into the sacred arsenal,
to put on the breastplate and
the helmet, and
to lay his hand to the spear
and to the sword!
The promises of GOD are a
spiritual pharmacy, in which
the believer will find all kinds of
restoratives and blessed elixirs.
There is . . .
an ointment for every wound,
a cordial for every faintness,
a remedy for every disease.
Blessed is he who is well skilled
in heavenly pharmacy and knows
how to lay hold on the healing virtues
of the promises of GOD!
The promises are a spiritual storehouse
of food to the Christian. They are as
the granaries which Joseph built in Egypt,
or as the golden pot wherein the manna was
preserved. Blessed is he who can take the
five barley loaves and fishes of promise--
and break them until his five thousand
necessities shall all be supplied, and he
is able to gather up baskets full of fragments.
The promises are the Christian's Magna Carta
of blessings; they are the title deeds of his
heavenly estate!
Happy is he who knows how to read
them well and call them all his own.
Yes, they are the jewel room in which
the Christian's crown treasures are
preserved. The regalia are his,
secretly to admire today--
which he shall openly wear
in Paradise hereafter.
He is already privileged as a king
with the silver key that unlocks
the strong room; he may even now
grasp the scepter, wear the crown, and
put the imperial mantle upon his shoulders!
O, how unutterably rich are the promises
of our faithful, covenant-keeping GOD!
If we had the tongue of the mightiest
of orators, and if that tongue could be
touched with a live coal from off the altar--
yet still it could not utter a tenth of
the praises of the exceeding great
and precious promises of GOD.
Nay, those who have entered into Heavenly
rest, whose tongues are attuned to
the lofty and rapturous eloquence
of cherubim and seraphim--
even they can never tell the height
and depth, the length and breadth of
the unsearchable riches of CHRIST, which
are stored up in the treasure house of GOD--
the promises of the covenant of HIS grace!
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"Enjoyment of the pleasures of the present life".
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