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<p>"I <em>remember </em>you." Jeremiah 2:2<br>
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  Let us note that Christ delights to think upon His Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the <em>bird </em>returns often to its nest, and as the <em>wayfarer </em>hastens to his home—so does the mind continually pursue the object of its desire. We cannot look too often upon that face which we love. We desire always to have our precious things in our sight. <br>
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  It is just so with our Lord Jesus. From all eternity "His delights were with the sons of men." When the world was set upon its pillars, He was there—and His thoughts rolled onward to the time when His elect would be born into the world; He viewed them in the mirror of His foreknowledge. Many a time before His incarnation, He descended to this lower earth in the similitude of a man, and visited His people: on the plains of Mamre, by the brook Jabbok, beneath the walls of Jericho, and in the fiery furnace of Babylon. <br>
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  Because His soul delighted in them—He could not rest away from them, for His heart longed after them! He had engraved their names upon His <em>hands</em>. Never were they absent from His <em>heart</em>, for as the <em>breastplate </em>containing the names of the tribes of Israel was the most brilliant ornament worn by the high priest—so the names of Christ's elect were His most precious jewels, and glittering on His heart! <br>
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  <em>We </em>may often forget to meditate upon the perfections of our Lord—but <em>He </em>never ceases to remember us! Let us chide ourselves for past forgetfulness, and pray for grace ever to bear Him in fondest remembrance. Lord, <strong>paint upon the eyeballs of my soul</strong>—the image of Your lovely Son!
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