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God's Reserve
Now what comes next is that which is more especially filling my heart this evening. In such a condition of things as that, has God any reserves? I do not say resources, but reserves. Can you say in your souls, Thank God, I know something of His reserves? Has He reserves? He has! What a wonderful thing it is to be able to say to one another, God has reserves! That is what Isa. 7 unfolds. And what is the condition of things when it is unfolded? What brings it out? A wrecked nation, whether on their own side, or in the presence of His glory; wild grapes produced under His culture, and a moral unfitness for His glory. Now what can God do for a people like that? When we come to this ch. 7, we have the virgin’s Son to meet it. A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
That is where I see Christ as God’s reserve. What a blessed, wondrous reality for the heart to grasp -- Christ as God’s reserve! “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign,” saying, as it were, I take you at your lowest; you want a sign; you have not faith to trust in my simple word—you are reduced to that. It is a state of very bankruptcy; you have got into a condition of total wreck, and now you want a sign. I will give you a sign: “A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.” What a marvelous intervention of God! God, in the goodness and resources of His own nature, equal to Himself.