n our merit, because we labor or agonize for it, but
we _receive of His fulness_. But who can begin to tell out what that
is, grace upon grace? Pages upon pages might be written and filled
with the good things, the spiritual blessings, the joy, the peace,
the comfort, the power and the wisdom and many other things, which
are included in "grace upon grace." And after we mentioned all these
precious things, we would have to put the pen down and confess our
insufficiency to tell out the riches, the fulness and vastness of
"grace upon grace."
This expression brings a great cataract like Niagara to our mind.
Here we stand and behold the mighty waters rushing down. Oh! the
mighty rushing waters, who can measure them! What a vast,
inexhaustible supply! Water upon water dashing down. For ages this
has gone on. Hundreds of years, more than that, thousands of years
have witnessed the same mighty waters. Every day, every hour, every
minute, every second, every fraction of a second--incessantly
mighty rushing waters upon waters!
In the same way there is pouring forth out of His fulness, the
fulness of the Lord in Glory--grace upon grace. There is an
unlimited, inexhaustible supply of the water of life from Him who is
the life. For ages the saints of God, saved by grace, have received
grace upon grace. A never ceasing stream of grace has been flowing
forth and it has not impoverished the marvellous eternal supply.
Still it flows undiminished--still there is grace upon grace. Yea
it is grace upon grace by which God's people live. Every hour, every
minute, every second, every moment it is His grace, grace upon grace
which keeps us, surrounds us, flows upon us and overshadows us. And
the more we take and enjoy the more we learn to sing.
More and more, more and more,
_Always_ more to follow!
Oh, His matchless, boundless _Grace_,
Still there's more to follow!
Will it ever stop? No, never! We shall keep on singing in all
eternity "still there's more to follow!--still there's more to
follow." Hallelujah! "That in the ages to come He might show the
_exceeding_ riches of His Grace in His kindness toward us through
Christ Jesus" (Eph. ii:7). _Always more to follow!_ Still there's
MORE to follow. All Praise to Him who died to have it so for us poor
lost sinners, whose lot should have been, as it is the lot of all
who reject this marvellous grace--always more to follow--in
eternal darkness and despair.
And how si
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