From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
September 30 "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to
sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in
every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. Let us then approach the
throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace
to help us in our time of need." Hebrews 4:15-16 What heart can conceive or tongue recount the daily,
hourly triumphs of the Lord Jesus Christ's all-conquering grace? We see
scarcely a millionth part of what he, as a King on his throne, is daily
doing; and yet we see enough to know that he ever lives at God's right hand,
and lives to save and bless. What a crowd of needy petitioners every moment surrounds
his throne! What urgent needs and woes to answer; what cutting griefs and
sorrows to assuage; what broken hearts to bind up; what wounded consciences
to heal; what countless prayers to hear; what earnest petitions to grant;
what stubborn foes to subdue; what guilty fears to quell! What grace, what
kindness, what patience, what compassion, what mercy, what love, and yet
what power and authority does this Almighty Sovereign display! No
circumstance is too trifling; no petitioner too insignificant; no case too
hard; no difficulty too great; no seeker too importunate; no beggar too
ragged; no bankrupt too penniless; no debtor too insolvent, for him not to
notice and not to relieve. Sitting on his throne of grace, his all-seeing eye views
all, his almighty hand grasps all, and his loving heart embraces all whom
the Father gave him by covenant, whom he himself redeemed by his blood, and
whom the blessed Spirit has quickened into life by his invincible power. The
hopeless, the helpless; the outcasts whom no man cares for; the tossed with
tempest and not comforted; the ready to perish; the mourners in Zion; the
bereaved widow; the wailing orphan; the sick in body, and still more sick in
heart; the racked with hourly pain; the fevered consumptive; the wrestler
with death's last struggle--O what crowds of pitiable objects surround his
throne; and all needing a look from his eye, a word from his lips, a smile
from his face, a touch from his hand! O could we but see what his grace is,
what his grace has, what his grace does; and could we but feel more what it
is doing in and for ourselves, we would have more exalted views of the reign
of grace now exercised on high by Zion's enthroned King!