Who is this Lamb who takes away the sin of the world? Who is He who, coming into the world, says that He is able to take up the question of sin and settle it? No mere man could do that. Who then is He? In John 1 we find a whole string of glories as the answer, connected with Him as the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Ah! if the glories of the Lord Jesus were seen by His people as a string of pearls, so that they knew how to count over those glories, what far happier hearts and faces the people of God would have!
“Behold the Lamb”! The words were like a living touch to the hearts of those who turned and followed Him. Their hearts were laid hold of by this Christ, this Lamb of God who was drawing them to Himself. He is at work just in the same way now; people cannot tell how it is, but they are drawn and constrained to go seeking Him. They find Him melting their hard hearts and they are drawn on to follow Him—still a man, though now in glory instead of being down here.
Unless the heart is on fire from having seen Jesus, how easily does any little thing turn it aside from daily following God’s Lamb.
G. V. Wigram (adapted)