OH 16:3{JO 2:13{"If they only knew!" How often we say or think this when they misunderstand and misjudge a person, a position, or an action just because they do not know what we know! How we chafe against their speaking evil of things which they know not, and most of all when they speak wrongly or unworthily of a person whom we know much better than they do! Ah, if they only knew! This grieving sense of the injustice of ignorance rises to a feeling which needs much tempering of faith and patience when we see our God Himself misunderstood and misjudged. Oh, how they daily mistake His words and His character, and how it does pain us! How we do want them to know what He is, even so far as we are privileged to know Him!... What added grandeur it gives to our anticipations of the day when every eye shall see Him, that He, our Father, will be known at last to be what He is, and that Jesus, our Lord and Master, will be seen in His own glory, and can never, never be misunderstood any more!
Oh, the joy to see Thee reigning,
Thee, my own beloved Lord!
Every tongue Thy name confessing,
Brought to Thee with glad accord!
Thee, my Master and my Friend,
Vindicated and enthroned,
Unto earth's remotest end
Glorified, adored, and owned!