The Lord Collects His Jewels

A short meditation upon Malachi 3:17

God's people often complain to Him about the seeming unfairness of the wicked prospering while the Righteous are in desperate straits.

But our God is patient with His people, and in this passage He explains again His promise, doing so in a particularly precious manner.

First, the text states that the Lord prepares a book of remembrance to record the faithfulness of His people.

Second, the Lord promises that His people will be gathered together as His jewels in the last day. What an amazing thing that Almighty God delights in His people, as miserable as we are in our own natural state. But He has glorified and beautified us with the glory and beauty of His own dear Son. What a privilege we have to be so made the object of His delight and His care. He will gather His people as jewels, no doubt to be admired and displayed for all eternity!

Third, the Lord will spare His people like a father spares an obedient son. We may be disobedient in our flesh, but our God counts us perfectly obedient in His Son, who was always obedient and perfectly satisfied His Father from all eternity.

But the amazing thing is this: that to so cherish His people, and to rescue us, and spare us from judgment, the Father spared not His own Son, the Lord Jesus, but delivered Him up for us all! He spared not His Son so that we, who were alienated and rebellious against Him, might be spared!

The passage remarks that it is in the end of things that the true condition of God's Elect will be shown. In the end, we shall all be spared who trust in Jesus.

In the end, too, His Son who was delivered for us at Calvary, has been highly exalted!