PROMISE FOR FEBRUARY 17TH

"And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." Malachi 3:17

THE first of these jewels was our Lord Jesus....He (Jehovah) has arranged that other jewels be cut and polished after the similitude of His son...as it is written, "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works." These gems must all be found by God, who is making up these jewels. But having been found of Him, they are placed in the hands of the great Lapidarist our Lord Jesus, that He may cut, polish and fit them for the glorious work of shining with Him in the Kingdom....He has not spared this class in the sense of relieving them from all suffering, for if they were thus spared they could not share the glory to follow this trial time. He did not spare Jesus, the Head....But He will not permit them to be tempted above what they are able to bear. He has an interest in them and a sympathy for them, and delivers them from those things which would prove too weighty for them. R. 5119, c.1, p.2-4.