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"The Biggest Promise"
He that spared not his Son, but deliver him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
(Romans 8:32).
If not a promise in form, this is certainly a promise in fact. It is a mighty sea of promises.
Dr. William Spurgeon of Wales was lecturing in Scotland, and after the lecture an old gentleman approached him and said, "Dr. Spurgeon, I'm glad to meet you. I'm the father of Henry Drummond."
"Oh, then," said Dr. Spurgeon, "I already know you, for I know your son so well."
If you wish to know what God is like, look at Jesus, for "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself" (2 Corinthians 5:19). Our unsparing God "spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all." All things belong to Him, and when God gave Jesus to us, with this gift He gave us all things.
One who has ever heard Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman preach will never forget it. In his service one night a man rose and gave this remarkable testimony: "I got off the train at the Pennsylvania Station as a tramp, and for a year I begged in the streets for a living. One night I touched a man on the shoulder and said, 'Please, Mister give me a dime.' As soon as I saw his face I recognized my own father. "Father, don't you know me?' I asked. Throwing his arms around me, he cried: 'I have found you! I have found you! All I have is yours." Just think of it--I, a tramp, stood begging my father for ten cents, when for eighteen years he had been looking for me to give me all he possessed."
We do not have to beg God or urge Him frantically to give us what we need. In Christ He has given us not only salvation but "all things to enjoy" (1 Timothy 6:17), and has given them freely. Our text today is really a checkbook of faith.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward: . . . they are more than can be numbered" (Psalms 40:5).
