Spurgeon: November PM
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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!