Thy mercy, my God, is the theme
of my song. The revelation of Jesus Christ
as the eternal God and Redeemer of His people is the confirmation
of all of the promises which God has declared unto His people
from the beginning of time. The Lord presented a bride unto
Adam and in so doing produced a picture or example of the relationship
of Christ to His own bride, which He loved from before the foundation
of the world. He has now manifested Himself
unto His own people in Jesus Christ as the fullness of the
Godhead bodily. No man hath seen God at any time.
The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,
He hath declared Him. God, who at sundry times and
in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the
prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son.
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds, who being the brightness of his glory, and express image
of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his
power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on
the right hand of the majesty on high. We are not now waiting
for some other era to unfold in the earth, nor do we yet wait
to discover any mysteries yet hidden from the sons of God.
The Father hath revealed all mysteries which were kept hidden
from the foundation of the world when he declared and manifested
himself in Jesus Christ. The light has now shined in the
darkness and displaced it, and he has shown himself faithful
unto all of his elect children in bringing many sons unto glory.
This is the end of the age, the last time of which he spoke and
upon which Paul reflected when he said, but ye, brethren, are
not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day.
We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not
sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. While we
yet wait for the appearing of our blessed Lord, who has promised
to return here to the very ground upon which His blood was shed,
we look for Him not as those who have no hope, but as the
children of light who traverse the path which Solomon described
when he said, But the path of the just is as a shining light
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Though we see
through a glass darkly, yet we rejoice in the glory of that
light which shineth in the face of Jesus Christ our Lord, and
have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. It is the
principle of God to save the best for last, even as He did
at the wedding feast of Cana, when He turned the water into
wine. The same is illustrated in the fact that the evening
precedes the day, as He tells us in Genesis 1.5, and the evening
and the morning were the first day. Note the order there as
the night precedes the dawn of the morning. Christ is our Sabbath,
who has appeared in the midst of darkness, and has destroyed
the darkness, making an open display of his destruction of
all the enemies of his people. The morning has surely broken
upon this earth, as the angels informed the shepherds on the
Judean hillside. For unto you is born this day
in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. As
glorious as that birth was, it was but the precursor of the
shining of His glorious light, as He cast off the chains of
the darkness of death, with which He willingly clad Himself on
Calvary's mount when He became sin for His own people. He arose
a victor over sin, death, and hell, while yet in the early
hours before dawn, as Mary made her way to the tomb when it was
yet dark. But did not the day star arise
and shine in her heart as the morning broke, and he revealed
himself to her, and she fell at his feet, calling him Master?
At evening time it shall be light, for surely the darkness and sadness
that enshrouded her in contemplation of his death was swept away in
an instant by the revelation of his person to her, a risen
Lord. Except there should be darkness,
we could not see the glory of Him who dispels the darkness,
that One who is the light of the world. He of whom Zechariah
spoke when he said, And the Lord shall be king over all the earth.
In that day shall there be one Lord, and His name one. He is
the light at evening time, the glory of God revealed unto men,
the one in whom all the promises of God are delivered unto the
sons of God. O Christ, He is the fountain,
the deep sweet well of love, the streams on earth I've tasted,
more deep I'll drink above. There to an ocean fullness His
mercy doth expand, and glory, glory dwelleth in Emmanuel's
land. The bride eyes not her garment,
but her dear bridegroom's face. I will not gaze at glory, but
on my King of grace. Not at the crown he gifted, but
on his pierced hand. For the Lamb is all the glory
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