WHAT heart can conceive, or what tongue recount the daily, hourly triumphs of Christ’s all-conquering grace? We see scarcely a millionth part of what Jesus as a King on His throne is daily doing; and yet we see enough to know that He ever lives at God’s right hand, and lives to save and bless. What a crowd of needy petitioners every moment surrounds His throne! What urgent wants and woes to redress; what cutting griefs and sorrows to assuage; what broken hearts to bind up; what wounded consciences to heal; what countless prayers to hear; what earnest petitions to grant; what stubborn foes to subdue; what guilty fears to quell! What clemency, what kindness, what long-suffering, what compassion, what mercy, what love, and yet what power and authority does this Almighty Sovereign display! No circumstance is too trifling; no petitioner too insignificant; no case too hard; no difficulty too great; no suer too importunate; no beggar too ragged; no bankrupt too penniless; no debtor too insolvent, for Him not to notice and not to relieve. Sitting on His throne of grace, His all-seeing eye views all, His almighty hand grasps all, and His loving heart embraces all whom the Father gave Him by covenant, whom He Himself redeemed by His blood, and whom the blessed Spirit has quickened into life by His invincible power. The hopeless, the helpless, the outcasts whom no man careth for; the tossed with tempest and not comforted; the ready to perish; the mourners in Zion; the bereaved widow; the wailing orphan; the sick in body, and still more sick in heart; the racked with hourly pain; the fevered consumptive; the wrestler with death’s last struggle—O what crowds of pitiable objects surround His throne; and all needing a look from His eye, a word from His lips, a smile from His face, a touch from His hand. O could we but see what His grace is, what His grace has, what His grace does; and could we but feel more what it is doing in and for ourselves, we should have more exalted views of the reign of grace now exercised on high by Zion’s enthroned King.—J. C. Philpot.
If our future blessedness shall consist in being where He is and beholding of His glory, what better preparation can there be for it than in a constant previous contemplation of that glory in the revelation made in the gospel, unto this very end—that by a view of it we may be gradually transformed into the same glory?—Owen.