THE GOD OF JESHURUN

For our meditation this evening I have been directed, after prayer, to a few verses in Deut. 33:26-29. “There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heavens in thy help, and His excellency on the sky.” (Read to the close of the chapter.)
This portion, as most of you know well, is connected with the blessing which Moses gave to the various tribes of Israel, just before the Lord took him away. After giving a particular blessing to each one of the tribes, the blessing in these verses is now uttered, by the Spirit speaking through the prophet, with regard to all the tribes of Israel—with regard to the whole of the literal Israel. The Holy Ghost sums up all the previous blessings in this last, which He begins by the words, “There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun.”

IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Jeshurun means, “the righteous,” or “the righteous one.” And this is one of the titles given to the Israelites. Strange title, is it not? to be given by the Spirit to that stiff-necked people, who had again and again provoked the God of Israel, and who had sinned against Him times without number. Stiff-necked and rebellious though they had been, yet they are here called “the righteous.” In speaking of this people, the Holy One calls them “righteous.”
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Precisely so is it with ourselves—by nature we are sinners, and great sinners; and not only so, but deserving punishment, and nothing but punishment; yet the moment a poor sinner is brought to believe on the Lord. Jesus Christ he is called righteous. “We are all by nature children of wrath, even as others,” yet by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ we are accepted, regenerated—that is, born again; instead of the children of wrath, we become the children of God, we are brought out of darkness into His marvellous light, are delivered. from the powers of darkness, and translated into the kingdom of His dear Son” —are brought on the road to heaven, and have before us the bright and blessed prospect of our Father’s house.