CHRIST IN GLORY KNOWN IN SORROW

CHRIST IN GLORY KNOWN IN SORROW

It is amazing to me the way our blessed Lord carries on His purpose with each of us, step by step and chapter by chapter. The more we sit and muse on His ways, and even His words to us, the more we are comforted with His minute assiduous attentions, perfectly holy, yet perfectly tender. The queen of Sheba learned Solomon in His glory, and thus we know Him now. This knowledge connects us with and introduces us into His things, while the way He has with Mary in John 11 unfolds to us how we learn Him in our own sorrows down here. As I learn Him in the latter, I feel that the One most necessary to me here is no longer here; and as I know Him in glory, I am beside myself — “no more spirit” in me, and I am filled with praise and worship on account of His greatness and blessedness. May these two lines of knowledge of Him abound to you both.