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 Spurgeon's Counsel
WE SHALL SEE THE LIGHT
"In Thy light shall we see
light." --Psalm 36:9
No lips can tell the love of Christ to
the heart till Jesus Himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and
tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Immanuel
reveals Himself within, the soul sees Him not. If you would see the sun, would
you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to
behold the orb of day? No, the wise man knoweth that the sun must reveal itself,
and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen.
It is so with Christ. "Blessed art
thou, Simon Bar-jona:" said He to Peter, "for flesh and blood hath not
revealed this unto thee." Purify flesh and blood by any educational process
you may select, elevate mental faculties to the highest degree of intellectual
power, yet none of these can reveal Christ. The Spirit of God must come with
power, and overshadow the man with His wings, and then in that mystic holy of
holies the Lord Jesus must display Himself to the sanctified eye, as He doth not
unto the purblind sons of men. Christ must be His own mirror. The great mass of
this blear-eyed world can see nothing of the ineffable glories of Immanuel. He
stands before them without form or comeliness, a root out of a dry ground,
rejected by the vain and despised by the proud.
Only where the Spirit has touched the
eye with eye-salve, quickened the heart with divine life, and educated the soul
to a heavenly taste, only there is He understood. "To you that believe He
is precious"; to you He is the chief corner-stone, the Rock of your
salvation, your all in all; but to others He is "a stone of stumbling and a
rock of offence."
Happy are those to whom our Lord
manifests Himself, for His promise to such is that He will make His abode with
them. O Jesus, our Lord, our heart is open, come in, and go out no more for
ever. Show Thyself to us now! Favour us with a glimpse of Thine all-conquering
charms.
Charles Haddon
Spurgeon
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