Chapter 90—Even for Ever
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever.
Isaiah 9:7
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In this life we can only begin to understand the wonderful theme of
redemption. With our finite comprehension we may consider most earnestly
the shame and the glory, the life and the death, the justice and the mercy,
that meet in the cross; yet with the utmost stretch of our mental powers we
fail to grasp its full significance. The length and the breadth, the depth and
the height, of redeeming love are but dimly comprehended. The plan of
redemption will not be fully understood, even when the ransomed see as they
are seen and know as they are known; but through the eternal ages, new truth
will continually unfold to the wondering and delighted mind. Though the
griefs and pains and temptations of earth are ended, and the cause removed,
the people of God will ever have a distinct, intelligent knowledge of what
their salvation has cost.
The cross of Christ will be the science and the song of the redeemed
through all eternity. In Christ glorified they will behold Christ crucified.
Never will it be forgotten that He whose power created and upheld the
unnumbered worlds through the vast realms of space—the Beloved of God,
the Majesty of heaven, He whom cherub and shining seraph delighted to
adore—humbled Himself to uplift fallen man; that He bore the guilt and
shame of sin, and the hiding of His Father’s face, till the woes of a lost world
broke His heart, and crushed out His life on Calvary’s cross. That the Maker
of all worlds, the Arbiter of all destinies, should lay aside His glory and
humiliate Himself from love to man will ever excite the wonder and adoration
of the universe. As the nations of the saved look upon their Redeemer and
behold the eternal glory of the Father shining in His countenance; as they
behold His throne, which is from everlasting to everlasting, and know that
His kingdom is to have no end, they break forth in rapturous song: “Worthy,
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