I will give thee for a covenant of the people. Isaiah chapter 49 verse 8. Jesus Christ is himself the sum and substance of the covenant and as one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer.

Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Consider that word God and its infinity and then meditate upon perfect man and all his beauty. For all that Christ as God and man ever had or can have is thine out of pure free favor passed over to thee to be thine entailed property forever.

Our blessed Jesus, as God, is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. Would it not console you to know that all these great and glorious attributes are altogether yours? Has he power? That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end. Has he love? Well, there is not a drop of love in his heart which is not yours. You may dive into the immense ocean of his love, and you may say of it all, It is mine. Hath he justice? It may seem a stern attribute, But even that is yours, for he will by his justice see to it that all which is promised to you in the covenant of grace shall be most certainly secured to you,

and all that he has as perfect man is yours as a perfect man the father's delight was upon him he stood accepted by the most high oh believer god's acceptance of christ is thine acceptance for knowest thou not that the love which the father set on a perfect christ He sets on thee now, for all that Christ did is thine. That perfect righteousness which Jesus wrought out when through his stainless life he kept the law and made it honorable is thine and is imputed to thee.

Christ is in the covenant. My God, I am thine. What a comfort divine! What a blessing to know that the Savior is mine. In the heavenly Lamb, thrice happy I am. And my heart, it doth dance at the sound of his name.