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Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 218 of 374 Honored of Heaven, July 28 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church.— Ephesians 1:22 Day was breaking over the Sea of Galilee. The disciples, weary with a night of fruitless toil, were still in their fishing boats on the lake. Jesus had come to spend a quiet hour by the waterside. In the early morning He hoped for a little season of rest from the multitude that followed Him day after day. But soon the people began to gather about Him. Their numbers rapidly increased...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 217 of 374 Bleeding Victim, July 27 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.— Mark 15:37 The priests and rulers were amazed to find that Christ was dead. Death by the cross was a lingering process; it was difficult to determine when life had ceased. It was an unheard-of thing for one to die within six hours of crucifixion. The priests wished to make sure of the death of Jesus, and at their suggestion a soldier thrust a spear into the Saviour’s side. From the wound thus made, there flowed two copious ...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 216 of 374 Minister of the New Covenant, July 26 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.— Hebrews 9:11 The sacrificial service that had pointed to Christ passed away; but the eyes of men and women were turned to the true sacrifice for the sins of the world. The earthly priesthood ceased; but we look to Jesus, the minister of the new covenant , and “to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things tha...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 215 of 374 Great Pattern, July 25 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”— Matthew 5:16 Paul writes, “Do all things without murmurings and disputings that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain neither labored in vain” ...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 214 of 374 Coming Redeemer, July 24 Arise for our help, and redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.— Psalm 44:26 How unmistakably plain were Isaiah’s prophecies of Christ’s sufferings and death! “Who hath believed our report?” the prophet inquires, “and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised a...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 213 of 374 Builder of the Church of God, July 23 “And He shall build the temple of the LORD.”— Zechariah 6:12 In the temple in heaven, the dwelling place of God, His throne is established in righteousness and judgment. In the most holy place is His law, the great rule of right by which all humanity are tested. The ark that enshrines the tables of the law is covered with the mercy seat, before which Christ pleads His blood in the sinner’s behalf. Thus is represented the union of justice and mercy in the plan o...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 212 of 374 Friend of Sinners, July 22 “When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.”— Ezekiel 33:8 Every indignity, reproach, and cruelty that Satan can instigate human hearts to devise, has been visited upon the followers of Jesus. And it will be fulfilled in a yet more marked manner; for the carnal mind is still at enmity with the law of God, an...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 211 of 374 Great Vendor of Spiritual Riches, July 21 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!— Romans 11:33 Victory will come to all who are loyal, steadfast in their allegiance to the cause of truth. “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him” ( James 1:12 ). Let all inquire, Are we individually faithful stewards in trust of the last message of mercy to be given to the world, ...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 210 of 374 Eternal Rock, July 20 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.— Psalm 118:22 To those who believe, Christ is the sure foundation. These are they who fall upon the Rock and are broken. Submission to Christ and faith in Him are here represented. To fall upon the Rock and be broken is to give up our self-righteousness and to go to Christ with the humility of a child, repenting of our transgressions, and believing in His forgiving love. And so also it is by faith and obedience that we buil...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 209 of 374 Judge of All Living, July 19 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.— 2 Corinthians 5:10 Under the inspiration of Satan, the Jews had chosen a robber and a murderer in the place of Christ, and with this company they had bound themselves for the judgment of the last day. Pilate had said, pointing to Christ, “Behold your King.” But with determined voice the chief priests and rulers ...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 208 of 374 Christ of the Gospel Dispensation, July 18 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.— John 1:12 From Paul’s day to the present time, God by His Holy Spirit has been calling after the Jew as well as the Gentile. “There is no respect of persons with God,” declared Paul. The apostle regarded himself as “debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians,” as well as to the Jews; but he never lost sight of the decided a...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 207 of 374 Beloved of Heaven, July 17 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.”— John 15:9 For more than a thousand years the Jewish people had awaited the Saviour’s coming. Upon this event they had rested their brightest hopes. In song and prophecy, in temple rite and household prayer, they had enshrined His name. And yet at His coming they knew Him not. The Beloved of heaven was to them “as a root out of a dry ground;” He had “no form nor comeliness;” and th...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 206 of 374 Meek Pattern, July 16 “Is this not the carpenter’s son?”— Matthew 13:55 A large portion of those who profess to be looking for Christ would be as forward as the Pharisees were to have the disciples silenced, and they would doubtless raise the cry, “Fanaticism! Mesmerism! Mesmerism!” And the disciples, spreading their garments and branches of palm trees in the way, would be thought extravagant and wild. But God will have a people on the earth who will not be so cold and dead but that the...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 205 of 374 Dying Author, July 15 “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”— Matthew 26:39 Satan with his fierce temptations wrung the heart of Jesus. The Saviour could not see through the portals of the tomb. Hope did not present to Him His coming forth from the grave a conqueror, or tell Him of the Father’s acceptance of the sacrifice. He feared that sin was so offensive to God that Their separation was to be eternal. Christ felt the anguish wh...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 204 of 374 Fountain of Healing Mercy for the World, July 14 “For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.”— Luke 9:56 Jesus carried into His labor cheerfulness and tact. It requires much patience and spirituality to bring Bible religion into the home life and into the workshop, to bear the strain of worldly business, and yet keep the eye single to the glory of God. This is where Christ was a helper. He was never so full of worldly care as to have no time or thought for heavenly thi...