“He had married an Ethiopian woman.” — Numbers 12:1

Strange choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of Him who is a prophet like unto Moses, and greater than he! Our Lord, who is fair as the lily, has entered into marriage union with one who confesses herself to be black, because the sun has looked upon her. It is the wonder of angels that the love of Jesus should be set upon poor, lost, guilty men. Each believer must, when filled with a sense of Jesus’ love, be also overwhelmed with astonishment that such love should be lavished on an object so utterly unworthy of it. Knowing as we do our secret guiltiness, unfaithfulness, and black-heartedness, we are dissolved in grateful admiration of the matchless freeness and sovereignty of grace. Jesus must have…

found the cause of His love in His own heart, He could not havefound it in us, for it is not there. Even since our conversion we have beenblack, though grace has made us comely. Holy Rutherford said of himselfwhat we must each subscribe to — “His relation to me is, that I am sick,and He is the Physician of whom I stand in need. Alas! how often I playfast and loose with Christ! He bindeth, I loose; He buildeth, I cast down; Iquarrel with Christ, and He agreeth with me twenty times a day!” Mosttender and faithful Husband of our souls, pursue Thy gracious work ofconforming us to Thine image, till Thou shalt present even us poorEthiops unto Thyself, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. Mosesmet with opposition because of his marriage, and both himself and hisspouse were the subjects of an evil eye. Can we wonder if this vain worldopposes Jesus and His spouse, and especially when great sinners areconverted? for this is ever the Pharisee’s ground of objection, “This manreceiveth sinners.” Still is the old cause of quarrel revived, “Because he hadmarried an Ethiopian woman.”

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