and causeth to approach unto Thee."
"This verse comprehends both
election,
effectual calling,
access,
acceptance,
and sonship.
First we are chosen of God,
according to the good pleasure of His will,
and this alone is blessedness.
Then,
since we will not and cannot come to God of ourselves,
He works graciously in us,
and attracts us powerfully:
He subdues our unwillingness,
and removes our inability
by the almighty workings of His transforming grace.
This also is no slight blessedness.
Furthermore, we,
by His divine drawings,
are made nigh by the blood of His Son,
and brought near by His Spirit,
into intimate fellowship;
so that we have access with boldness,
and are no longer as those who are afar off by wicked works:
Here also is unrivaled blessedness.
To crown all,
we do not come nigh in peril of dire destruction,
but we approach as chosen and accepted ones,
to become dwellers in the divine household:
This is heaped up blessedness......
vast beyond conception.
But dwelling in the house we are treated as sons,
for the servant abideth not in the house forever,
but the son abideth forever.
Behold what manner of love and blessedness
the Father has bestowed upon us
that we may dwell in His house,
and go no more out forever.
Happy men who dwell at home with God."
The Treasury of David
Charles Spurgeon
Powerful and profound!
Couldn't wait to share it with you.
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