By the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

Jesus, the Redeemer, is completely and eternally ours, and every position or office of authority He holds is held on our behalf. He is King for us, Priest for us, and Prophet for us, and whenever we come across another title of His in His Word, we should appropriate Him as “ours” with each of those titles. The Shepherd’s staff, the Father’s rod, the Captain’s sword, the Priest’s headdress, the Prince’s scepter, and the Prophet’s robe are all ours. Jesus uses all His majesty for our exaltation, and He has no privilege or entitlement He will not employ in our defense. His fullness in the Godhead is our unfailing, inexhaustible treasure-house.

His manhood, which he took upon Himself for us, is also ours in all its perfection. Our gracious Lord conveys the spotless virtue of His stainless character to us, just as He gives us His praiseworthy power and effectiveness for a life of devotion. He bestows on us the reward He won through His obedient submission and eternal service. He gives us the pure garment of His life for our beautiful covering, the brilliantly shining virtues of His character as our crowning jewels, and the supernatural meekness of His death as our boast and glory. He bequeaths His manger to us, so we will learn how God came down to man, and His cross to us, to teach us how man may go up to God.

All Jesus’ thoughts, emotions, actions, words, miracles, and prayers were for us. He walked the road of sorrow on our behalf and has bestowed upon us His entire heavenly legacy — the complete results and inheritance of every work of His life. He is as much ours today as He has ever been or will ever be, and He would be ashamed not to portray Himself as “our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 5:1), though He is “the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords” (1 Tim. 6:15). Everywhere and in every way Christ is our Christ “richly . . . to enjoy” (1 Tim. 6:17 KJV) forever and ever.

“O my soul” (Ps. 103:1), through the power of the Holy Spirit declare Him this morning “your Redeemer”!

By the pen of Jim Reimann:

Job declared, “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes — I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” (Job 19:25 – 27). In spite of all his suffering, Job trusted in the Lord, whom he referred to as “my Redeemer,” and he looked forward to the day when Jesus would actually “stand upon the earth.” In some respects Job was called upon to show greater faith than we are, for he looked forward in faith, whereas we look back to Jesus’ first coming with a great amount of evidence to support the fact that He indeed walked this earth.

Yet whether I look back on Jesus’ first coming or forward by faith to His second coming, He is eternally mine! And I am His! This glorious revelation that He is “my Redeemer,” and that I am His, should evoke the following prayer within me:

“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer” (Ps. 19:14).