If Jesus is not God

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(George Mylne, "Reposing in Jesus: Or, The True Secret of Grace and Strength" 1862)

It is of great importance that we should practically know Jesus as He is--that we should be able to repose on Him in all the reality of His divine nature.

If Jesus is God--then I must repose on Him as God; and this, not merely for the correctness of my beliefs--but for the strengthening of my faith, and for the encouragement of my soul in all the varieties of its experience and warfare.

If Jesus is not God--then He could not have loved me from everlasting--and I then have no warrant that He either can, or will, love me forever.

If Jesus is not God--then He has neither rendered an infinite obedience, nor made a perfect atonement for sins, on my behalf.

If Jesus is not God--then my faith is vain, and I am yet in my sins.

If Jesus is not God--then I cannot look to Him for unfailing guidance, wisdom or power.

If Jesus is not God--then His grace is not sufficient for me--nor is His strength made perfect in my weakness.

But my repose is this, that Jesus is God--that "in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily"--and that "From the fullness of His grace, I have received one gracious blessing after another!"

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