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Let Us Come Boldly To The Throne of Grace, January 12
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain
mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16
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Jesus knows the needs of His children, and He loves to listen to their prayers.
Let the children shut out the world and everything that would attract the thoughts
from God, and let them feel that they are alone with God, that His eye looks into
the inmost heart, and reads the desire of the soul, and that they may talk with
God. In humble faith you may claim His promises, and feel that although you
have nothing in yourself whereby you may claim the favor of God, because of the
merits and righteousness of Christ, you may come boldly to the throne of grace,
and find help in time of need. There is nothing that can make the soul so strong
to resist the temptations of Satan in the great conflict of life, as to seek God in
humility, laying before Him your soul in all its helplessness, expecting that He
will be your helper and your defender.
With the trusting faith of a little child, we are to come to our heavenly Father,
telling Him of all our needs. He is always ready to pardon and help. The supply
of divine wisdom is inexhaustible, and the Lord encourages us to draw largely
from it. The longing that we should have for spiritual blessings is described in the
words, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,
O God.” We need a deeper soul-hunger for the rich gifts that heaven has to bestow.
We are to hunger and thirst after righteousness.
O that we might have a consuming desire to know God by an experimental
knowledge, to come into the audience chamber of the Most High, reaching up the
hand of faith, and casting our helpless souls upon the One mighty to save. His
loving kindness is better than life.
He desires to bestow on the children of men the riches of an eternal inheritance.
His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
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