Will You Be Found in Christ?
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Letters of M’Cheyne Part 5 of 6
What does it mean to believe in Jesus? How can I seek and find Him? These crucial questions are pastorally answered in 6 letters that Robert Murray M’Cheyne wrote to a dying lady in his congregation. We will be posting each of these letters individually over the next few months, so we pray that they would be a blessing to you!
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813 - 1843) was a faithful minister at St Peter's Church in Dundee, Scotland, from 1836 to 1843. The Lord took him home to glory at the young age of 29 years old, but his love for Christ continues to encourage many today. These letters are taken from Andrew Bonar’s great biography of M’Cheyne: The Memoirs and Remains of Robert Murray M’Cheyne and slightly modernized.
Letters to a Soul Seeking Jesus (5) – Be Found in Christ
Dear Friend,
I write you another letter to tell you of Jesus who is “altogether lovely” (Song 5:16). I have a very dear boy in my parish who is dying right now. He said to me the other day, "I have been feeding for some days on the words you gave me from Song of Solomon 5:15; for I am sure Jesus is able to carry me and all my sins."
You can say the same, if your eyes have been opened to see the beauty, fullness, freeness, and compassion of the Lord Jesus. Nothing but the hand of God can open your eyes to see your lost condition as it truly is – “Flesh and blood cannot reveal Him to you, but my Father” (Matt 16:17). Oh, call upon Him to do this for you! A spiritual discovery of yourself and of Jesus is better than a million of worlds to you, and to me also.
Remember, you cannot be beautiful in yourself before God. Song of Solomon 1:6 must be your prayer: "Do not look upon me..." Take yourself at your best moments, and you are but a vile worm in Jehovah's sight, and so am I. But remember you may be "perfect in Christ Jesus" (Col 1:28; 2:10). Allow yourself to “be found in Christ” (Phil. 3:8-9).
Oh, what will come of you if you are found in yourself? Where will you appear? You will shrink back and call on rocks and mountains to fall on you and cover you (Rev. 6:16-17). But if you are hiding in Jesus—if your eyes and heart are fixed on His wounds made by our sins—if you are willing to be righteous in His righteousness – to lie down under the stream of His blood – and to be clothed with the white wool of the Lamb of God—then God will lavishly love you with His whole soul!
The pure, full love of God streams through the blood and obedience of Jesus to every soul that is lying under them, however vile and wretched in themselves.
Have you tried—have you tasted the holy love of a holy God? His love is better than wine (Song 1:2). It is better than all creature love or creature enjoyments. Oh, do not live—oh, do not die, outside of this sweet, sweet, sin-pardoning, soul-comforting love of God!
Remember, Jesus is quite willing to gather you under His wings (Matt. 23:37). Put that beyond all doubt! Remember, also, the present is your only time to be saved (Eccl. 9:10; 2 Cor. 6:1-2). There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave—no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion. We must either gain you now or lose you forever. Oh, that you would use the little time given to you! Every moment is worth a world. Your soul is very dear to me—but far dearer to Jesus. Look to Him and you will be saved (Is 45:22-24; Acts 16:31).
Ever yours,
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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