More than being our friend, helper, or benefactor!''

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(James Smith, "The Pastor's Morning Visit")

"I will be to them a God!" Hebrews 8:10

That is, to all His redeemed people.

I will be . . . 
  the object of their adoration and trust,
  the subject of their meditation,
  and the source of all their happiness.

To be our GOD — is more than being our friend, helper, or benefactor (creatures may be so to us). He engages to do us good according to His all-sufficiency; to bestow upon us blessings which none else can!

He will pardon us — and pardon like a God!

He will sanctify us — and sanctify us like a God!

He will comfort us — and comfort us like a God!

He will glorify us — and glorify us like a God! 

If He is our God — He is our All.

And all that He has is ours! He is our inheritance, and a glorious inheritance He is.

Consider, when . . .
  in danger,
  in darkness,
  in distress,
  in temptation,
  in duty, or
  in affliction — 
God will be to you a God . . .
  delivering you,
  enlightening you,
  comforting you, 
  strengthening you,
  sanctifying you.

Make a God of Him! Look to Him for all that He has promised — which is all that you need! Adore His Divine perfections, and rejoice that they are all engaged to make you eternally blessed.

Live to His glory, walk by His Word — and He will glorify Himself in your present and everlasting welfare. He rejoices to do good unto His people, He delights to bless them!

"I will be to them a God!" Hebrews 8:10

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