October 15

Everything found in Christ

“His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9:6).
“It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell” (Col. 1:19).

Oh! my dear friends, let us rest more upon the truth as it is in Jesus. Of late, I have been brought to feed more upon Jesus as the truth. I see more in Him in that character than I ever did. I see Christ the truth of my life, friends, relations, sense, food, raiment, light, fire, resting-place. All out of Him are but shadows. All in Him are blessed sacraments—I mean visible signs of the fountain, or vehicles to convey the streams of inward grace.
—John Fletcher.

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