3. God The Son

By Andrew Murray

“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Rom 1:17)

It is remarkable that the Apostle Paul, in each of his thirteen epistles writes, “Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” He had such a deep sense of the inseparable oneness
of the Father and the Son in the work of grace, that in each opening benediction he refers to both.

This is a lesson for us of the utmost importance. There may be times in the Christian life when one
thinks chiefly of God the Father, and prays to Him. But later on we realize that we must grasp the truth
that each day and each hour it is only through faith in Christ and in living union with Him that we can
enjoy a full and abiding fellowship with God.

Remember what we read of the Lamb in the midst of the throne. John had seen One sitting on a throne,
“and the four living creatures . . .day and night . . .never cease to sing, ‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is and is to come’.” (Rv 4:8)

Later he saw “in the midst of the throne a Lamb as through it had been slain” (Rv 5:6). Of all the worshipping multitude none could see God, but he first saw Christ the Lamb of God. And none could see Christ without seeing the glory of God, the Father, and the Son inseparably One.

If you would know and worship God, seek Him and worship Him in Christ. And if you seek Christ,
seek Him and worship Him in God. Then you will understand what it is to have “your life hid with Christ in God,” and you will know how indispensable the fellowship and adoration of Christ is to the
full knowledge of the love and holiness of God.
Be still and speak these words in deepest reverence: “Grace and peace” – all I could desire – “from
God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Take time to meditate and believe, to expect all from God the Father, who sits upon the throne, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb in the midst of the throne. Then you will learn truly to worship
God. Return frequently to this sacred scene, to give “to him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb .
. . blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!” (Rv 5:13)

From the 6-month devotional “Every Day” with Andrew Murray

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Mike Wright