(Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you! I have called you by your name — you are Mine!” Isaiah 43:1
God is intensely desirous to rid me of my needless fears. Therefore does He not give me reason after reason for peacefulness, calmness, and hope?
1. “Fear not,” He says, “for I have redeemed you!”
What a work it was!
Price it demanded!
Sorrow it involved!
It meant the surrender and sacrifice of His Son, His Only-Begotten, His Well-Beloved. It meant for the King of Glory, to be born in a lowly stable, with the ox and donkey and camel. Because After a life of suffering, it meant a stark and dreadful Cross on the Hill of Shame!
A Scottish professor, who retained to the last a childlike heart, speaking to his students one day about the atoning sacrifice of Calvary, said, with the tears running down his cheeks, “Ay, ay, do you know what it was? Do you know what it was? It was damnation — and He took it lovingly!”
It was my damnation — and He took it lovingly!
And since God gave all this for me — then how can He ever abandon me? Therefore let my heart be confident and strong.
2. There is His understanding of my case. “Fear not,” He continues, “for I have called you by name!” He has such multitudes to remember, and yet He knows me individually and intimately! …There are billions of people in the world today, and I cannot grasp the tremendous aggregate, but He is familiar with each beating soul.
Just so, He comprehends . . .
my special needs and circumstances,
overbearing duties,
sore temptations,
herculean difficulties,
and my subtle and persevering foes.
Should I not be strong and courageous, when the Lord of Heaven has such perfect acquaintance with me?
3. And there is His ownership of my soul. “Fear not,” He commands once more, “for you are Mine!” In a sense I was always His possession; but since He purchased me with Christ’s blood, I am among . . .
His jewels,
trophies,
special possessions,
and His redeemed children!
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