Oh reason of reasons, argument of arguments--the LORD JESUS CHRIST! Nothing in Christianity lies really outside Him. His Person and His Work embody all its dogmatic teaching. His Example, "His Love which passeth knowledge," is the sum and life of all its morality. Well has it been said that the whole Gospel message is conveyed to us sinners in those three words, "Looking unto Jesus." Is it pardon we need, is it acceptance, free as the love of God, holy as His law? We find it, we possess it, "looking unto Jesus" crucified. Is it power we need, victory and triumph over sin, capacity and willingness to witness and to suffer in a world which loves Him not at all? We find it, we possess it, it possesses us, as we "look unto Jesus" risen and reigning, for us on the Throne, with us in the soul. Is it rule and model that we want, not written on the stones of Horeb only, but "on the fleshy tables of the heart"? We find it, we receive it, we yield ourselves up to it, as we "look unto Jesus" in His path of love, from the Throne to the Cross, from the Cross to the Throne, till the Spirit inscribes that law upon our inmost wills. Be ever more and more to us, Lord Jesus Christ, in all Thy answer, to our boundless needs. Let us "sink to no second cause." Let us come to Thee. Let us yield to Thee. Let us follow Thee. Present Thyself evermore to us as literally our all in all. And so through a blessed fellowship in Thy wonderful humiliation we shall partake for ever hereafter in the exaltations of Thy glory, which is the glory of immortal love. [1] _Koinunia pneumatos_: "participation in the Spirit"; sharing and sharing alike in the grace and power of the Holy Ghost. I venture to render _pneumatos_ as if it were _tou Pneumatos_, having regard to the great parallel passage, 2 Cor. xiii. 14, _he koinonia tou hagiou Pneumatos_. With a word so great and conspicuous as _pneuma_ it is impossible to decide by the mere absence of the article that the reference is not to _the_ (personal) Spirit. _Kurios_, _Theos_, _Christos_, are continually given without the article where the reference is definite; because they are words whose greatness tends of itself to define the reference, unless context withstands. _Pneuma_ in the N. T. is to some extent a parallel case with these. [2] _Ina_ . . . _phronute_: my English is obviously a mere paraphrase here. More exactly we may render, "make full my joy, so as to be," etc.; words which come to much the same effect, but are less true to our common idioms.