More than being our friend, helper, or benefactor!

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(James Smith, "The Pastor's Morning Visit")

"I will be to them a God!" Hebrews 8:10

That is, to all His redeemed people.

I will be . . .
the object of their adoration and trust,
the subject of their meditation,
and the source of all their happiness.

To be our GOD--is more than being our friend, helper, or benefactor (creatures may be so to us). He engages to do us good according to His all-sufficiency; to bestow upon us blessings which none else can!

He will pardon us--and pardon like a God!

He will sanctify us--and sanctify us like a God!

He will comfort us--and comfort us like a God!

He will glorify us--and glorify us like a God!

If He is our God--He is our All.

And all that He has is ours! He is our inheritance, and a glorious inheritance He is.

Consider, when . . .
in danger,
in darkness,
in distress,
in temptation,
in duty, or
in affliction--
God will be to you a God . . .
delivering you,
enlightening you,
comforting you,
strengthening you,
sanctifying you.

Make a God of Him! Look to Him for all that He has promised--which is all that you need! Adore His Divine perfections, and rejoice that they are all engaged to make you eternally blessed.

Live to His glory, walk by His Word--and He will glorify Himself in your present and everlasting welfare. He rejoices to do good unto His people, He delights to bless them!

"I will be to them a God!" Hebrews 8:10

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