Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.

Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.