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“We Shall Be Like Him”, February 24
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 John 3:2
.
Jesus, the world’s Redeemer, knows all His children by name, and on
those who believe shall come the glory of God.... Those who behold Jesus
become changed to His image, become assimilated to His nature, and the
glory of God that shines in the face of Jesus, is reflected in the lives of His
followers. More and more the Christian is changed from glory to glory....
The more he looks on Christ, the more he loves and longs to look again,
and the more light and love and glory he sees in Christ, the more his light
increases....
It is by faith that the spiritual eye beholds the glory of Jesus. This
glory is hidden until the Lord imparts the light of spiritual truth, for the
eye of reason cannot see it. The glory and mystery of Christ remains in-
comprehensible, clouded by its excessive brightness, until the Lord flashes
its meaning before the soul.... By faith the soul catches divine light from
Jesus. We see matchless charms in His purity and humility, His self-denial,
His wonderful sacrifice to save fallen man. Contemplation of Christ leads
man to place a proper estimate upon himself.... The possibility of being
like Jesus, whom he loves and adores, inspires within him that faith which
works by love and purifies the heart....
Jesus is more precious to the soul that beholds Him by the eye of faith
than is anything else beside, and the believing soul is more precious to
Jesus than fine gold of Ophir. Christ looks upon His hands—the marks
of the crucifixion are there—and He says, “I have graven thee upon the
palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me” (
Isaiah 49:16
).
The Christian is walled in by the rich full promises of an infinite God.
The Lord is coming with power and great glory. All who have made
Christ their refuge will reflect His image, and they will be like Him, for
they shall see Him as He is. They are to be presented to Him without “spot,
or wrinkle, or any such thing” (
Ephesians 5:27
)
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