Jan. 7
ALWAYS GROWING
"Thou shalt see greater things than these." John 1:50
This is spoken to a childlike believer, who was ready to accept
Jesus as the Son of God, the King of Israel, upon one convincing piece
of argument. Those who are willing to see shall see: it is because we
shut our eyes that we become so sadly blind.
We have seen much already. Great things and unsearchable has the
Lord showed unto us, for which we praise His name; but there are
greater truths in His Word, greater depths of experience, greater
heights of fellowship, greater works of usefulness, greater
discoveries of power, and love, and wisdom. These we are yet to see if
we are willing to believe our Lord. The faculty of inventing false
doctrine is ruinous, but power to see the truth is a blessing. Heaven
shall be opened to us, the way thither shall be made clear to us in
the Son of man, and the angelic commerce which goes on between the
upper and the lower kingdoms shall be made more manifest to us. Let us
keep our eyes open toward spiritual objects, and expect to see more
and more. Let us believe that our lives will not drivel down into
nothing, but that we shall be always on the growing hand, seeing
greater and still greater things, till we behold the Great God
himself, and never again lose the sight of Him.