Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by you, and looked on you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you… "Thou becamest Mine." Do you recollect the spot — perhaps it was your own little room — where, as a youth, you sat after having long prayed and wept? And at last you felt that Jesus was yours; and you sat still, and you said to yourself "Yes, I am His, every bit of me. He has bought me with His blood, I am His." Do you remember those first few days in which you felt half afraid to do anything lest you should grieve that dear Lover of your soul? Then you wanted to do everything that you might please Him whose servant you had become. I remember a verse of Scripture which, as a young believer, I used often to repeat; for it was very dear to me. I daresay you love it too; it is this: "Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." We did feel then that we were wholly Christ's; do we feel it as much now? "Thou becamest Mine." To come back to the marriage covenant of which the Lord speaks, — when the husband put the ring upon his bride's finger, he said to her, "Thou hast become mine." Do you remember when you felt upon your finger the ring of infinite, everlasting, covenant love that Christ put there. "Thou becamest Mine." Oh, it was a joyful day, a blessed day! Happy day, happy day, when His choice was known to me, and fixed my choice on Him! ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. |
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