A CARILLON OF BELLS
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"He who spared not His own Son . . how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" Romans 8:32
Dear Lord, faith's fingers are joyfully touching the keys of this carillon of sweet bells this morning, and making them ring jubilantly to the praise of Your gracious Name!
"He who spared not!"
"How shall He not!"
What a peal of absolute triumph it is! Not a note of doubt or uncertainty mars the Heavenly music. Awake, my heart, and realize that it is your faith which is making such glorious melody! You can scarcely believe it, for gladness? Yet it is blessedly true, for the Lord Himself has given the grace, and then accepts the tribute of gratitude and praise which that grace brings. Press the tuneful keys again and again, for faith holds festival today, and the joy of assurance is working wonders.
"He who spared not!"
"How shall He not!"
Hear how the repeated negatives gloriously affirm the fact of His readiness to bless! These silver bells have truly the power to scare away all evil things.
"He who spared not His own Son." He gave His most precious treasure — could He withhold any lesser good from you? He has given you pounds; will He refuse you pence?No! While faith is thus quickened into lively exercise by the Spirit of God, the cadences of exulting praise must ring out, clear and loud, "How shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
Think well, my heart, what "all things" mean to you! If you have Christ — then along with Him, and included in Him, you possess "all things!" All spiritual blessings, rich and precious — are laid up for you in this Divine storehouse, and God's choicest and most excellent gifts are here waiting for your faith to claim them! Rejoice, O my soul, that Christ and "the things of Christ" cannot be divided!
Pardon, peace, sanctification, close walking with God, constant communion with Jesus, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit — are not all these gathered together "with Him" as a cluster of ripe grapes on a choice vine? Having Him — you have all else. There is not a need or desire of your inner life which cannot be triumphantly met by faith's unwavering challenge, "He who spared not His own Son . . how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things!" Nor is there a necessity of your temporal state which cannot equally claim the blessing of possessing "all things" in Christ.
Lord, quicken my faith, give me to see how deep and wide, and full and free — is the unspeakable love which spared not Your own Son, and therefore can spare every other gift, to me, Your undeserving child! I thank You that it is not '"way over Jordan, Lord," that I must go to "ring these charming bells"; but here, now, in the sanctuary of my heart, and all day long in the open cloisters of my daily life — I may make the blessed music resound to Your glory, and my own exceeding gladness —
"How shall He not!"
"How shall He not!"
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