Salvation has a divine as well as a human side. Nothing that God had created could satisfy Him, save to have Christ as man sitting on His throne. Ah! His ways are not as our ways. God’s glory in redemption was to show how low He could let the Son of His love stoop—in letting Him go down to the death of the cross—break His heart in woe—and then to set Him as the center of a new system as the Lamb slain. Would that be according to man’s thought of glory? But God would have His own way, and all His glory shone forth in redemption. His glory is to have heaven filled with poor sinners, brands plucked from the burning. And His Christ finds Himself sitting patiently waiting 1800 years for heaven to be so filled.
G. V. W.