"I will make you to be a covenant for the people." - Isaiah 49:8

Jesus Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant and, as one of its gifts, He is the property of every believer. Can you estimate what you have received in Christ? "In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.' Consider that word "Deity" and its infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect human being" and all his beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is yours - out of pure, free kindness, transferred to you to be your inheritance forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. Doesn't it console you to know that all these great and glorious attributes are entirely yours? Does He have power? That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end. Does He have love? Well, there isn't a drop of love in His heart which isn't yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of His love, and you may say about all of it, "It is mine." Does He have justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours for, by His justice, He will see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. And all that He has as perfect human being is yours. As a perfect human being the Father was delighted with Him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God's acceptance of Christ is your acceptance. Don't you realize that the love which the Father set on a Perfect Christ, He now sets on you? For all that Christ did is yours. That perfect righteousness which Jesus worked out when, through his stainless life, He kept the law and made it honorable, is yours, and is assigned to you. Christ is in the covenant.

"My God I am thine - what a comfort divine!
What a blessing to know that the Savior is mine!
In the heavenly Lamb thrice happy I am,
And my heart it doth dance at the sound of His name."

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