Judges 19:1-30; Isaiah 37:8-38; 1 Corinthians 15:1-34
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. Psalm 16:6
The “lines” referred to the portion of the promised land allotted to each family by Joshua. But here, prophetically, the Lord describes His lot as “pleasant”. The Hebrew word means “an object of delight”. This Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, whose visage was marred more that any Man; who sweat as it were great drops of blood; who took the sins of the whole world upon Himself on Calvary’s cross. This Man, God the Son, called His lot pleasant; an
object of delight! Who is this object of delight? His church, us personally—you and me! He bore it all, for you and for me.—Ray Jones
I love Thee, because Thou hast first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree;
I love Thee for wearing, the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, Lord Jesus, ’tis now. —Wm. R. Featherstone