| His Grace — Part 2 |
“And of His fulness have all we received,
and grace for grace” (John 1:16). |
| James and John are a good example of what we had in yesterday’s meditation. The Lord surnamed them, “Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder” (Mark 3:17). From that, and the fact that they united in asking the Lord to command fire to consume the village of the Samaritans, who refused them (Luke 9:54), we gather that they were rough, impatient, noisy men. Their mother was ambitious, too, in asking for her sons the chief places in the kingdom, and such a mother was likely to have ambitious sons (Matthew 20:20). The fact that they accompanied her when the request was made seems to point to this very clearly. |
| But see how grace worked. From the book of Acts we gather that James had become a man, ready to suffer martyrdom for Christ’s sake, with no trace of the Boanerges left. John, from his writings, is seen to be gentle, tender, and deeply affectionate — he had well graduated from the top place in the Lord’s school — his head upon his Master’s breast. Certainly, the Boanerges had been rooted out of him, the lion of nature had given place to the lamb of grace. |
| (Adapted from Comforted of God) |
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