I will give You for a covenant of the people. Isaiah 49:8
We all gave and received gifts during the Christmas season. More than likely, you received gifts that you do not really care for that much. You were certainly appreciative of the thought that went behind the gift, but the gift itself is of no use to you. You probably received a gift or two that was really what you wanted as well.
Isaiah reminds us that the Messiah was a gift. He is speaking writing the words of God the Father in Isaiah 49, so we are to understand the portion of Isaiah 49:8 above as a quote from God the Father Himself. The Father is telling Jesus the Christ that He is giving Him for the people.
We could ponder for an eternity of eternities the implications of this gift and never reach the bottom of that well. Christmas has come and gone, however pondering the wonders of the giving of Messiah is a yearlong pursuit, not exclusively a Christmas time activity. Consider what the great preacher of yesteryear Charles H. Spurgeon had to say about the implications of the gift of Messiah:
In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Consider that Word "God" and its infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect man" and all His beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine-out of pure free favour, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property forever. Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. Will it not console you to know that all these great and glorious attributes are altogether yours? Has He power? That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end. Has He love? Well, there is not a drop of love in His heart which is not yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of His love, and you may say of it all, "It is mine." Hath He justice? It may seem a stern attribute, but even that is yours, for He will by His justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you. And all that He has as a perfect man is yours. As a perfect man the Father's delight was upon Him. He stood accepted by the Most High. O believer, God's acceptance of is thine acceptance."
All that is His, is yours......let that thought encourage your heart today.
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