Oil for the lamps. EXODUS 25: 6 My soul, you really need this, for your lamp will not continue to burn for long without it. Your stuff will smoke and become an offense if light is gone, and gone it will be if you run out of oil. You have no oil well springing up in your human nature, and therefore you must go to them who sell and buy for yourself, or like the foolish virgins you will have to cry, "My lamp has gone out." Even the consecrated lamps could not give light without oil; though they shone in the tabernacle, they needed to be fed; though no rough winds blew upon them, they required to be trimmed, and your need is just as great. Under the most happy circumstances you cannot give light for another hour unless fresh oil of grace is given you. Pretended grace from natural goodness, fancied grace from priestly hands, or imaginary grace from outward ceremonies will never serve the true child of God; he knows that the Lord would not be pleased with rivers of such oil. The oil of Gospel Grace is pure and free from sediment and dregs, and so the light that is fed by it is clear and bright. Let us pray for ourselves, our ministers, and our churches that they may never lack oil for the light. Truth, holiness, joy, knowledge, love- these are all beams of the sacred light; but we cannot send them out into darkness unless in private we receive oil from God the Holy Spirit.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:58:57 +0000
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