October 29
Charmed by Christ
“Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty” (Isa. 33:17).
“We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father” (John 1:14).
The world—oh, what a bubble, what a trifle it is! Friends are nothing, fame is nothing, health is nothing, life is nothing; Jesus, Jesus is all!
Oh! what will it be to spend an eternity in seeing and praising Jesus! To see Him as He is, to be satisfied with His likeness! Oh, I long, I pant, I faint with desire to be singing, “Worthy is the Lamb!”—to be extolling the riches of sovereign grace—to be casting the crown at the feet of Christ! And why may we not do all this on earth?
—Edward Payson.
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