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"And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not
him." - Genesis 42:8
This morning our desires went forth for growth in our acquaintance with the Lord
Jesus; it may be well to-night to consider a kindred topic, namely, our heavenly
Joseph's knowledge of us. This was most blessedly perfect long before we had the
slightest knowledge of him. "His eyes beheld our substance, yet being imperfect,
and in his book all our members were written, when as yet there was none of
them." Before we had a being in the world we had a being in his heart. When we
were enemies to him, he knew us, our misery, our madness, and our wickedness.
When we wept bitterly in despairing repentance, and viewed him only as a judge
and a ruler, he viewed us as his brethren well beloved, and his bowels yearned
towards us. He never mistook his chosen, but always beheld them as objects of
his infinite affection. "The Lord knoweth them that are his," is as true of the
prodigals who are feeding swine as of the children who sit at the table.
But, alas! we knew not our royal Brother, and out of this ignorance grew a host
of sins. We withheld our hearts from him, and allowed him no entrance to our
love. We mistrusted him, and gave no credit to his words. We rebelled against
him, and paid him no loving homage. The Sun of Righteousness shone forth, and we
could not see him. Heaven came down to earth, and earth perceived it not. Let
God be praised, those days are over with us; yet even now it is but little that
we know of Jesus compared with what he knows of us. We have but begun to study
him, but he knoweth us altogether. It is a blessed circumstance that the
ignorance is not on his side, for then it would be a hopeless case for us. He
will not say to us, "I never knew you," but he will confess our names in the day
of his appearing, and meanwhile will manifest himself to us as he doth not unto
the world.
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