2. His Eternity for thee. All we can ask Him to
CHRIST FOR US
pardoned the unloving, ungrateful reserve, and has graciously accepted the poor little fleeting breath
_ and speck of dust which was all we had to offer.
And now His precious death and His glorious life are all for thee.
2. His Eternity for thee. All we can ask Him to take are days and moments—the little span given us as it is given, and of this only the present in deed and the future in will. As for the past, in so far as we did not give it to Him, it is too late; we can never give it now! But His past was given to us, though ours was not given to Him. Oh, what a tremendous debt does this show us!
Away back in the dim depths of past eternity, or ever the earth and the world were made, His divine existence in the bosom of His Father was all for thee, purposing and planning for thee, receiving and holding the promise of eternal life for thee.
Then the thirty-three years among sinners on this sinful earth: do we think enough of the slowly wearing days and nights, the heavy-footed hours, the never-hastening minutes, that went to make up those thirty-three years of trial and humiliation? We all know how slowly time passes when suffering and sorrow are near, and there is no reason to suppose that our Master was exempted from this part of our infirmities.
Then His present is for thee. Even now He liveth to make intercession; even now He thinketh upon thee; even now He knoweth, He careth, He loveth.
Then, only to think that His whole eternity will