O LORD GOD Almighty, Blessed Is The Man Who Trusts In YOU.

Communion with Jesus

(John Fawcett, "CHRIST Precious")

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"Yes, HE is very precious to you 

who believe." 1 Peter 2:7

CHRIST is precious to those who believe. 

They desire to have more and more daily 

acquaintance with HIM, and to grow in 

the sweet and powerful experience 

of communion with HIM. Let us suppose 

the true Christian, in his retired moments, 

addressing GOD in such manner as the following:

"YOU O GOD are . . .
  unchangeable in YOUR nature,
  glorious in YOUR essence,
  wonderful in YOUR perfections,
  wise in YOUR counsels,
  and holy in all YOUR works. 

It is my greatest good and highest 

happiness, to enjoy YOUR favor and 

to behold YOUR glory. Permit me 

to say, with YOUR servant Moses, 

'I beseech YOU,  show me YOUR glory!' 

Show me the glory of YOUR wisdom, 

YOUR holiness, YOUR power, YOUR grace, 

and YOUR mercy in CHRIST JESUS. 

This will give me a distaste for the gaudy 

vanities of the present world. I shall then 

look with indifference on all that after 

which the covetous are eagerly panting. 

I shall then pity the ambitious, in their 

restless solicitude to make themselves 

great, and to obtain the veneration 

of their fellow worms. 

YOUR Divine beauty and infinite 

loveliness, as displayed in 

the glorious Mediator will . . .

  captivate my desires,
  inflame my love, and
  excite my joy and delight!

"A more intimate view of YOUR holiness 

will embitter every sin; and lead me in 

deepest humiliation, to abhor myself 

and repent as in dust and ashes. 

Give me such a sense of YOUR majesty, 

as may dispose my heart to reverence 

YOU supremely. Afford me such discoveries 

of YOUR omnipotence, YOUR love, and YOUR 

goodness, as may support my fainting heart 

under the toils of this warfare, and all 

the afflictions attending this state 

of mortality. 

Let the impressions which YOUR adorable 

perfections make upon me be deep and 

powerful, so as to transform my soul 

into YOUR own lovely and holy likeness. 

Thus by beholding YOUR glory, may 

I be changed into YOUR image.

"It is habitual, and not transient 

communion with JESUS, 

the LORD of glory--

which alone will satisfy my desires, 

and produce those happy effects 

which I seek, of nearer conformity 

to HIM in knowledge, righteousness 

and true holiness. 

Communion with CHRIST will tend to . . .
  refine my understanding,
  rectify my soul,
  and purify my heart!

"Grant me, O AUTHOR of all good, 

by frequent converse with YOU, 

to have my affections spiritualized, 

that I may look with indifference 

on all other objects; and have my 

mind set on things above, not on 

earthly things. In fellowship with YOU, 

I shall find a source of delights infinitely 

superior to anything that this world can afford. 

For YOUR loving-kindness is better than life 

itself. YOU are the inexhaustible treasury 

of blessedness. O LORD GOD Almighty, 

blessed is the man who trusts in YOU."

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Arthur Pink, "The Attributes of God"
Chapter 20. The Bounties of God