Revelation 10:11

REFLECTIONS

Oh! thou Almighty Angel, whom John saw coming down from heaven! Give me, by faith, to behold thee with the delightful rainbow upon thine head, in token of the everlasting Covenant! Lord Jesus! whatever clouds or darkness thy divine dispensations are clothed with, still never will my faith despond, as long as Jesus appears to my view with his rainbow. Though the Church be in the fiery furnace, and clouds and darkness all around, yet while God my Father is beholding his Church through Christ, and in Christ, the bow in the cloud; and while Jesus's face towards his people is as the sun in divine grace, and love, and favor, and the Church looking to Christ, and in Christ, and through Christ to God, all is well.

Blessed Lord! thou hast sworn, while taking possession of heaven, earth, and sea as thine, that the hour is hastening when time shall be no longer. Oh! then prepare thy Church, prepare thy people for this great day of our God! Lord, in thine own time, which is the best time, finish the mystery of God, in breaking down all the powers of antichrist, and thereby finish the mystery of iniquity, which now so much opposed thy pure Gospel.

Lord! give me the same spirit of obedience as thy servant John. Make me to eat and digest thy saving truths. Let all be sweet in thee, however bitter in the world, from flesh and blood. Kings, and nations, and tongues, shall hear thy prophecies, and all thy people shall praise thee.