MY NEDITATION OF HIM SHALL BE SWEET.

 
EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

FEBRUARY 25

 

Psalm 104:34

My meditation of him shall be sweet:

I will be glad in the LORD.

 
To meditate is to think closely, seriously, and for some time upon one subject: if the subject is spiritual, the exercise is peculiarly profitable: if the mind is spiritual, meditation of Jesus will be sweet. 

Let us think of him frequently, intently, and seriously.
 
Let us meditate on the glory of his person,
-the riches of his grace,
—the strength of his love,
—the tenderness of his sympathy,
—the power of his arm,
—merit of his blood,
—the magnificence of his righteousness,
—the completeness of his conquest,
—the splendor of his ascension,
—the prevalence of his intersession,
—the exalted station of his people on earth,
—what he gives to them,what he requires of them
—and the glory to which he will raise them,
when he comes again the second time, without sin unto salvation.
 
Let us go over in meditation all that regards
   his person,
       his office,
           his work,
                his kingdom,
                     his humiliation,
                         his exaltation, and
                                   his character.
 
Such meditations will be sweet.
 
Let us see him in nature, in providence, and in grace.

 

Sweet are the thoughts which fill my breast,

When on his various works the rest;

God my CREATOR lifts my voice!

In God my SAVIOUR I rejoice!

 
James Smith