Day 3 - Tuesday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
Morning, December 17 Go To Evening Reading “I remember thee.” —Jeremiah 2:2 Let us note that Christ delights in thinking about Churchurch and looking at her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot look too often upon that face we love; we always desire to have our precious things in sight. It is even so with our Lord Jesus. From all eternity, “His delights were with the sons of men”; his thoughts rolled onward to when his elect should be born into the world; he viewed them in the mirror of his foreknowledge. “In thy book,” he says, “all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them” (Ps. 139:16). When the world was set upon its pillars, he was there, and he put the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. Many a time before his incarnation, he descended to this lower earth ...