GOD’S KING

This blessed Lord has qualified Himself as Man to hold everything for God. Hence, when the thief was on the cross, the blessed Lord was there dying for him, but the Spirit of God was brooding over his soul and doing a mighty work in him. The effect of that brooding was this: that he travels a marvellous moral journey. He must die, but he took a magnificent journey. He journeyed from the man that was here, to the Man that had done nothing amiss. He travelled from the man who had done everything amiss, to the Man who had done nothing amiss. He saw the excellence of dignity; he saw the moral beauty of the One who was dying at his side.

Hence he came to the conclusion that this Man must be KING! The One who said, ‘I hold up the pillars of it’, for he said, “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom”, Luke 23: 42. That is, he recognised that such an One should be King; he recognised these two things in that Person. There was nothing outwardly to speak of it, but the Spirit of God brooded over his soul, and caused him to understand that although he was the man who had done everything amiss, here was a Man who had done nothing amiss, and that Man must be King!

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From ‘Mutual Comfort’, 1918