After speaking on that in which communion with the Son conists in chapter 2 of part 2 of Owen's On Communion with God and the way in which we have communion with the Son regarding his personal grace in chapter 3, Owen then describes the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ. In this section (which is a marvelous inducement to repent of all vain thinking and doing), Owen describes the hidden mystery of the Gospel, great without controversy, admirable to all eternity. And then he adds, "What poor, low, perishing things do we spend our contemplations on!"
Oh how right he is! I find that it is so easy for us--maybe especially so for American Christians--to spend our thoughts endlessly on vanities and trifles with little to no thought about the glories of the Gospel. I am smitten and cut by this word from Owen. And oh how I long to repent of spending my contemplations on poor, low, and perishing things! Oh to be given over to meditation on the glories of Christ and his mediatorial work! What else is so worthy of our most assiduous and severest meditation? God help us.
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