1305. For Me and Thee
For Me and Thee
"Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine" (Luk_15:31).
1. All Mine is thine. The Lord said to Peter, "Thou shalt find a piece of money; that take, and give unto them for Me and thee."
The Lord did not say, "Thou shalt find two pieces of money." There was but one piece, and the one was His. How blessed then that what is His, is ours.
The Lord seemed to say to Peter, "All Mine is thine." When Christ was praying in the upper room, He spoke of the glory that the Father had given Him, and then, turning to His saints, He seemed to open His hands and to pour forth His all upon them in loving gift. He said: "The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them" (Joh_17:22).
Thus, there is nothing that Christ is, or that Christ possesses, that does not belong to His saints.
If Christ is "the heir of God," His children are the "joint heirs."
If "all things were made by Him," and for Him, He turns immediately around and says to His saints, "All things are yours."
Everything that Christ is, in Himself, He is in our behalf.
Everything that Christ did, when He went to the Cross, He did for us.
Everything that Christ accomplishes at the right hand of the Father, is accomplished in our behalf.
If Christ received from the Father the promise of the Spirit–He poured Him forth upon the saints.
If in the Father's house "are many mansions," our Lord says: "I go to prepare a place for you." The New Jerusalem, itself, is prepared for saints, for they "have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the city" (Rev_22:14).
In the ages that lie before us, there are untold riches of grace, but they are all to be shown unto the saints.
2. All thine is Mine. If the Lord Jesus has said that everything that He possesses is ours, if He has given both Himself and His riches to us, what less can we do than to bring ourselves and our little all, and give all to Him?
In the Song of Solomon we read, "My Beloved is mine, and I am His."
If "God so loved the world that He gave" surely, we should give.
Did not Paul say; "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice"? What less could we do? His abundant "mercies" demand our all.
When Christ spared not Himself, shall we spare ourselves? If He first loved, shall we not love?
If He died for us, shall we not live for Him?
"Oh, this full and perfect peace!
Oh, this transport all Divine!
In a love that cannot cease,
I am His, for He is mine."
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR