There is no fear when we see Christ in the glory above, because every ray of this glory says to me, no condemnation. I is because the sin is put away that He is up there.
Stephen was a true epistle of Christ, when he looked up into heaven, saw Jesus there, and said of his murderers, lay not this sin to their charge. If any man loveth, he is born of God. In no other way than by being made a partaker of the divine nature could he know what loving is.
A perfectly humble man would be one who was always thinking of the Lord Jesus, and never of himself.
God made man the center of a system. Hence fallen man always seeks to make himself the center of things: this is what we call selfishness. But now God has made Christ the center of a system of blessing, and it is sin to make anything else the center.