September 29: What's His Is Ours

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ER 23:5,6{We cannot do without this most wonderful name. It can never be an old story to us. It is always a "new name" in freshness and beauty and power. It is our daily need and our daily joy. For strength it is indeed "a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." For sweetness it is "as ointment poured forth." In it we see at once the highest height and the deepest depth; Jehovah, God of God, Light of Light, and our need of a righteousness which is not our own at all, because we have none. We stand as upon an Alpine slope, face to face with the highest, grandest, purest summit above, and the darkest, deepest valley below, seeing more of the height because of the depth, and more of the depth because of the height. Jesus our King "hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name" than angels, for His Father has given Him His own name—"He shall be called Jehovah." But this alone would be too great, too far off for us; it might find echoes among the harpings of sinless angels, but not among the sighings of sinful souls. And so the name was completed for us, by the very word that expresses our truest, deepest, widest, most perpetual need, and the Holy Ghost revealed the Son of God to us as "Jehovah our Righteousness.”
Therefore, justified forever by the faith which He hath given,
Peace, and Joy, and hope abounding, smooth thy trial path to Heaven:
Unto Him betrothed forever, who thy life shall crown and bless,
By His name thou shalt be called, Christ, "The Lord our Righteousness!”