0213. Grace Fetching

Grace Fetching

"Then King David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar" (2Sa_9:5).

The word "fetching" is not much used, but it is a word which is very expressive. It is not only "tell him to come;" but it is also "provide all means for his coming."

This is just what our Blessed Lord does. He invites us to come to Him! and then He sends us One to conduct us to Him; and then He provides for all the exigencies of our coming.

"He found him in a desert land, and in the waste and howling wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him. * * He kept him. * * As an eagle fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord did lead him" (Deu_32:11-12).

Abraham sent Eliezer for his son’s bride. Eliezer said to Rebekah, "Will you go?" The damsel answered, "I will go." Then she was escorted across the desert sands unto Abraham and unto Isaac. Eliezer "fetched her." He furnished the camel, and he conducted her, and he provided all things for her safety and comfort.

God has sent the Holy Spirit to call us from Lo-debar. He "fetches us" over the sands of this life. In Him–our Paraclete, our Heavenly Conductor we will find all our needs supplied; until He brings us home to Glory, and to our God, and to our blessed Bridegroom.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR