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
"O Christ Thou art enough
The heart to satisfy."
Soon we shall see Him, whom we contemplate now in faith. Soon we
shall be in His own glorious presence and look upon that face, which
was once marred and smitten, but which now shines out Heaven's and
the Father's Glory.
The kingly Glory of our blessed Lord is one of the great themes of
the Bible. The Man of humiliation, who here on earth walked in
dependence on God, who did His will, suffered and died is now in the
Father's presence and on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
There He sat down with His Father in His throne, waiting for the
moment when His work as the Priest and Advocate of His beloved
people on earth is accomplished, and when the Father will establish
Him as King, when He will receive the kingdom. Alas! that all this
glory, which belongs to Him and which is still future, His Kingship,
His kingly glory and rule, as it must be some day, is so unknown and
even disowned in Christendom. It is but the uncovering of the
condition of the heart of the great majority of professing
Christians. They may talk of religion, of great reform movements, of
service to mankind, world progress, but the Christ of God in all His
Glory, past, present and future, has little attraction. Far
different it is with the heart which knows Him and has given Him the
place He is worthy of, the first place. That heart delights to
meditate on all His Glory and longs for the time when He will
appear, and when at last, crowned with many crowns, He will assume
His righteous rule. Great is our joy and delight when we follow
through the Scriptures His earthly life so full of His moral Glory.
Or when we think of Him as He died for us and bore in His own body
on the tree our sins; we praise Him for His mighty Love. But what
joy to think of Him as coming at last into that which belongs to Him
the Lord of Glory, by right of redemption, when He will take
possession of this earth and claim its Satan ruled kingdoms for His
own. Then it will be true, "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness
thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." Then the Seraph's
song will be realized, "The whole earth is full of His Glory."
How much the Word has to say about the King and His Glory; and we
have never yet taken hold of it with our dull hearts! Take the Book
of Psalms, for instance, that book which has been so belittled by
the destructive criticism. While we read so much in those precious
productions of the Holy Spirit of Christ's sufferings, His
humiliation, His prayers, His death, we may find there much more
about Him as King and His coming manifestation.
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