From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
August 7 "And his incomparably great power for us who believe.
That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in
Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in
the heavenly realms." Ephesians 1:19, 20 It is no great mystery that the Son of God should be
exalted to the throne of power. It is but a step from the bosom of the
Father to his right hand. But that one in our nature should be exalted to
that seat of pre-eminence and power; that the Mediator between God and man
should be the man Christ Jesus; that the hands which once were nailed to the
cross should now hold the scepter, and that the feet which once walked on
Lake Gennesaret, which were weary and dust-soiled at Jacob's well, which
were washed with a sinful woman's tears and kissed in penitential grief and
love with polluted lips--that these very feet should now have all things put
under them both in heaven and earth--there is the mystery. And yet what food for faith. The living family of God
need a living Savior, one who can hear and answer prayer, deliver out of
soul-trouble, speak a word with power to the heart when bowed down with
grief and sorrow, sympathize with them under powerful temptations, support
them under the trials and afflictions of the way, maintain under a thousand
discouragements his own life in their soul, sustain under bereavements the
mourning widow, and be a father to her fatherless children; appear again and
again in providence as a friend that loves at all times and a brother born
for adversity, smile upon them in death, and comforting them with his rod
and staff as they walk through the valley of its dark shadow, land them at
last safely in a happy eternity.