The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ — John Shaqi
The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus ChristGaebelein, Arno Clemens
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The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
Jesus Christ -- Meditations; Jesus Christ -- Person and offices
He is altogether lovely and he is altogether wonderful. Glory to His
name! Well has one said: "He pervades the whole of the New Testament
with His presence, so that every doctrine it teaches, every duty it
demands, every narrative it records, every comfort it gives, every
hope it inspires, gathers about His person and ministers to His
glory." So dear does He thus become to the heart of the believer,
that Luther may well be excused for exclaiming, 'I had rather be in
hell with Christ, than in heaven without Him.'
"We believe in Him as our Saviour, Acts vi:31; confess Him as our
Lord, Rom. x:9; we have redemption through His blood, Eph. i:7; we
look to Him as our Leader, Heb. xii:2; we follow Him as our Teacher,
Eph. iv:20, 21; we feed upon Him as our Bread, Jno. vi:48; we go to
Him in our Thirst, Jno. vi: 37; we enter by Him as our door, Jno.
x:9; we are in Him as our vine, Jno. xv:5; we find in Him our rest,
Matt. xi:28; we have in Him our example, Jno. xiii:15; He is our
righteousness, 2 Cor. v:21; we are succored by Him in temptation,
Heb. ii:18; we turn to Him for sympathy, Heb. iv:15; we obtain
through Him our victory, 1 Cor. xv:57; we overcome by Him the world,
1 Jno. v:5; we have in Him eternal life, 1 Jno. v:11, 12; we gain by
Him the resurrection, Phil. iii:20, 21; we appear with Him in glory,
Col. iii:4, we exult in His everlasting love, Rev. i:5, 6."
May the Holy Spirit fill our hearts and eyes with Himself and reveal
to us through the written Word more of the matchless beauty of the
wonderful Person of our Saviour and Lord. We honor and adore Thee,
blessed, blessed Lord, and while Thou art rejected we thy feeble
people would know more of Thyself and keep closer at Thy feet. Amen.
"We would see Jesus, for the shadows lengthen
Over this little landscape of our life,
We would see Jesus, our weak faith to strengthen,
For the last weariness, the final strife.
We would see Jesus, this is _all_ we're needing;
Strength, joy and willingness come with the sight;
We would see Jesus, dying, risen, pleading;
Then welcome day, and farewell mortal night."
Honour and Glory Unto him.
IN Revelation V, that great worship scene, beginning some day in
heaven and going on into future ages, we read of the Lamb to whom
honor and glory are due. He alone is worthy. And every heart who
knows Him rejoicing in His love, cries out, "Thou art worthy!" Yea,
the sweetest song for the redeemed soul is the outburst of praise,
which we find on the threshold of His own Revelation. "Unto Him that
loveth us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made
us kings and priests unto God and His Father; _to him_ be glory and
dominion forever and ever. Amen." Soon the great worship John beheld
prophetically may become reality.
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