"As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, destroy it
not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants' sakes, that
I may not destroy them all." - Isa. lv. 8.
It is blessed to trace our mercies to the fountain head, and to
find them all folded up from everlasting in Jesus. What was it that
preserved our whole nature when blasted and withered by the fall? Was
it not because Jesus, the promised seed, was in it? And what is it that
preserves every individual among the children of God during the dark
season of their unregeneracy, but the same precious cause? He that
looks on (and who is this but Christ himself?) amidst all our perishing
circumstances, by his powerful and all- prevailing intercession,
commands the destroyer not to touch his people; for though in
themselves loathsome, yet in Jesus they are fair and lovely. My soul,
learn hence thy security. The whole cause for which thou wert preserved
until called, and, when called, preserved through grace unto glory,
both in conversion and in every after-act of God's dealings with thee,
all refers itself into this one source. Destroy it not, there is a
blessing in thee, though not from thee: Jesus is in thee, as the new
wine is found in the cluster!
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