• WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS • Isaac Watts, 1674–1748 • Carrying His own cross, He went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified Him. (John 19:17, 18) • While preparing for a communion service in 1707, Isaac Watts wrote this deeply moving and very personal expression of gratitude for the amazing love that the death of Christ on the cross revealed.
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• How inexpressibly comforting it is for us to be “led by the Spirit”. And now that Christ is dwelling in our hearts by faith, it is our privilege to hear His voice and to know it. It just leaves nothing for us to do but to yield ourselves and our members up in childlike obedience to Him.
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• “They took Jesus, and led him away.” • — John 19:16 • He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and yet neither refreshment nor rest were permitted him.
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• If thou hadst known! • If thou hadst known . . . in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. Luke 19:42. • Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, the pride of Pharisaism; it was religious and upright, but a ‘whited sepulchre.’ • What is it that blinds me in this my day?
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• Always rejoicing • 2 Cor. 6:10 • No Christian can ever know what is meant by those two little words, “always rejoicing,” but the Christian who takes up his cross and follows Jesus. • W. Hay Aitken •…
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