Evening, November 16
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“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!