But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith,
pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and await the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who will bring you eternal life. In this way, you will
keep yourselves safe in God’s love.
Jude 1:20-21 NLT
Spurgeon's Daily Devotional:
"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! Isaiah 33:17
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