Seeing Jesus

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THERE was a time when Christ had no attraction to the heart of the believer. “When we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him" (Isa. 53:22For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (Isaiah 53:2)), was his thought of Jesus. But the Lord has wrought in the heart of each of His people a miracle more notable than those He wrought in the bodies of the lame and the blind He healed when here in the days of His flesh, for He has planted His own love within the heart, and made it to spring up, and to grow in affection towards Himself. Thus it is, that by the Spirit, through whom the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts (Rom. 5:55And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (Romans 5:5)), the true Christian responds to the love of the blessed God and of His 'Son.
The Lord places before His Father as one of the joys of His heart, and as the high joy of His people, the prospect of seeing His glory, '" Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory" (John 17:2424Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:24)). What a contrast with our first thoughts of the Son of God's love, when we saw in Him no beauty that we should desire Him! The sight of all sights for the redeemed in the Father's house will be Jesus in His glory. This is their great hope.
His own essential glories will shine before His people. He is the eternal Son of the eternal God, the great I AM, and these glories are all His own. But He is the Son of man as well as the Son of God. The Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, from whom we hid our faces, is the Man of Glory and of joy, to whom, as turn the flowers to the sun, every eye and every heart of the redeemed in heaven shall ever be directed. “They shall see His face, and His Name shall be in their foreheads “(Rev. 22:44And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. (Revelation 22:4)). Each shall catch His reflection-each shall answer in some degree to His beauty-His Name as the choicest jewel, and the mark of high majesty shall be in their foreheads, and all shall derive their glory and perfection from Himself.