“Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty.” 
              — Isaiah 33:17

The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with
superficial views of him; and the more deeply you study his
transactions in the eternal covenant, his engagements on your behalf as
the eternal Surety, and the fulness of his grace which shines in all
his offices, the more truly will you see the King in his beauty. Be
much in such outlooks. Long more and more to see Jesus. Meditation and
contemplation are often like windows of agate, and gates of carbuncle,
through which we behold the Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to
the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could
have seen him if we had lived in the days of his flesh. Would that our
conversation were more in heaven, and that we were more taken up with
the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord. More
meditation, and the beauty of the King would flash upon us with more
resplendence. Beloved, it is very probable that we shall have such a
sight of our glorious King as we never had before, when we come to die.
Many saints in dying have looked up from amidst the stormy waters, and
have seen Jesus walking on the waves of the sea, and heard him say, “It
is I, be not afraid.” Ah, yes! when the tenement begins to shake, and
the clay falls away, we see Christ through the rifts, and between the
rafters the sunlight of heaven comes streaming in. But if we want to
see face to face the “King in his beauty” we must go to heaven for the
sight, or the King must come here in person. O that he would come on
the wings of the wind! He is our Husband, and we are widowed by his
absence; he is our Brother dear and fair, and we are lonely without
him. Thick veils and clouds hang between our souls and their true life:
when shall the day break and the shadows flee away? Oh, long-expected
day, begin!

On this day...

• Do You Know This Confidence? - 2011
• This Is the Judgment: Light Has Come into the World - 2011
• God So Loved the World, Part 2 - 2011
• God So Loved the World, Part 1 - 2011
• God Wrote A Book - James Macdonald - 2009
• Isaiah 33:17 - 2008
• HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EXPRESSIONLESS WITH SORROW? - 2008
• John 14:26 - 2007
• Psalms 119:15 - 2007