Wednesday, March 13, 2019

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His GracePart 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 affectionatehe had well graduated from the top place in the Lord’s schoolhis 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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