THOU WAST PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT.

 
OCTOBER 17.
 
Thou wast precious in my sight.
Isaiah 43:4
 
ALL the Lord's people are precious in the Lord's sight:
  never was child so precious in the
  estimation of a fond mother,
  as the poorest, weakest believer, is to the Lord Jesus.
 
They are precious to him as creatures,
  as sinful creatures,
   but especially as regenerated creatures.
 
They are precious to him,
  therefore he lay down his life for them, and
  will never, never part with one of them.
 
Their persons are precious,
  their graces are precious,
  their prayers and praises are precious,
   and their life is precious.
 
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
 
Every thing he has done for them,
  said to them, or set before them,
  proves that they are precious to him.
 
His invitations, his expostulations, his promises,
  his exhortations, and his warnings, prove this.
 
They are precious to the Father, as his child;
  precious to the Son, as his bride;
  precious to the Holy Spirit, as his temple.
 
They are redeemed by precious blood,
  blessed with precious faith,
  interested in precious promises,
  entitled to precious things, and
   are comforted with God's precious thoughts.
 
If we are precious to Jesus,
  he will certainly be precious to us.
 

Hear, O my soul, what Jesus saith,

Nor tremble to depart;

For all his saints in life and death,

Are precious to his heart.

 
James Smith 1849