From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
July 16 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 2:5 That he is God, is the very foundation of his salvation;
for it is his eternal Godhead that gives virtue, efficacy, and dignity to
all that as man he did and suffered for his chosen people. If he were not
God, God and man in one glorious Person, what hope would there be for our
guilty souls? Could his blood atone for our sins, unless Deity gave it
efficacy? Could his righteousness justify our persons, unless Deity imparted
merit and value to all the doings and sufferings of his humanity? Could his
loving heart sympathize with and deliver us, unless "as God over all," he
saw and knew all that passes within us, and had all power, as well as all
compassion, to exert on our behalf? We are continually in circumstances where no man can do
us the least good, and where we cannot help or deliver ourselves; we are in
snares, and cannot break them; we are in temptations, and cannot deliver
ourselves out of them; we are in trouble, and cannot comfort ourselves; are
wandering sheep, and cannot find the way back to the fold; we are
continually roving after idols, and hewing out "broken cisterns," and cannot
return to "the fountain of living waters." How suitable, then, and sweet it
is, to those who are thus exercised, to see that there is a gracious
Immanuel at the right hand of the Father, whose heart is filled with love,
and whose affections move with compassion; who has shed his own precious
blood that they might live; who has wrought out a glorious righteousness,
and "is able to save unto the uttermost all who come unto God by him."