By-and-by, as a man (God's Man in the world), He will testify of the world that its works are evil, and be hated by it but as a child (a child after God's heart, as I may say), He will be subject to His parents, and under the law, and as one perfect. His wisdom kept pace with His stature, or age. There was nothing of unnatural progress in Him: all was orderly increase. It has been said of the Lord - "His humanity was perfectly natural in its development." This is very beautiful and true.
It now illuminates every page of the four evangelists, as it once did every path which the Lord himself trod on this path of ours. But there it shone, whether man could bear it or not. From its intense excellency, it was too bright for the eye of man and man was under constant exposure and rebuke from it. He could not be less than perfect in every thing - it belonged to Him, it was Himself.
Such glories were commonly hid, as He passed on in the circumstances of life day by day. His official glory He veiled likewise He did not walk through the land as either the Divine Son from the bosom of the Father, or as the authoritative Son of David. His personal glory He veiled, save where faith discovered it, or an occasion demanded it. The glories of the Lord Jesus are threefold - personal, official, and moral. "And when any will offer a meat-offering, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon and he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord." - Lev. His Work I also assume that suffering service, or blood-shedding, accomplished on the Cross, whereby reconciliation is perfected, and wherein it is preached for the acceptance and joy of faith.Ī Short Meditation on the Moral Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord's Person I assume - God and man in one Christ. I may give occasion to fruitful thoughts in the souls of others, and that will be good. In Him God recovered His complacency in man, and that too with unspeakable gain for in Jesus, man is more to God than He would have been in an eternity of Adam innocency.īut in this Meditation on the Moral Glory of the Lord Jesus, it is most surely but a small part of that wondrous subject I affect to have reached. In His Person (but surely there only) man was reconciled to God. Every expression of Himself in every measure, however small, and in whatever relationship it was rendered, was incense. All went up to God as a sacrifice of sweet savour. It is the Moral Glory, or, as we speak, the character of the Lord Jesus, on which I meditate in these pages. The Moral Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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