June 24, 2026

Week Twenty-five,

(at end of chapter)

Meditations.

WEDNESDAY. 

Morning.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 

Isa. lxiv. 6.   

Rom. iv. 7, 8.  

Rom. v. 6. 

Evening. 

Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Now, it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 

Rom. iv. 9, 22, 23, 24, 25.  

Rom. v. 8. 

 June 24.

"The angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee."     

— 1 Kings xix. 7.

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way."

—  Matt. xv. 32.

Truly "He knoweth our frame;" and if He knows so well, and provides so tenderly, even by special miracles, for the bodily wants of His followers, dare we doubt that He can and will feed their souls also? "He knoweth our frame" as regards our spiritual wants, as well as our temporal; and we have an instance of this in the nourishment that He gives His people in the holy sacrament. It is there and then that special supplies are given, to strengthen us in faith, and hope, and love for the journey that is before us; and every time that we have the privilege of thus feeding upon Him in our hearts by faith with thanksgiving, we ought to feel that this is meant for the strengthening in us of the new nature, and that we have missed His purpose if we do not arise and go forth from that banqueting-house stronger in the Lord and in the power of His might. Lord, evermore give us this bread! Send us not away fasting! but by this and every means of grace do Thou give us grace, till Thou bring us to glory!

"Is He compared to wine or bread?

Dear Lord! our souls would thus be fed:

That flesh, that dying blood of Thine,

Is bread of life, is heavenly wine."