"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"Father, I will that they also, whom T hou hast given M e, be with M e where I am; that they may behold M y glory, which T hou hast given M e: for T hou lovedst M e before the foundation of the world." - JOHN 17:24 [KJV] How great, how elevated above all utterance or all conception of men or angels, must the glory of Christ be as the Son of the Father in truth and love! And not only is the Lord Jesus Christ glorious in His essential Deity as the Son of God, but glorious also in His holy, spotless humanity which He assumed in the womb of the Virgin Mary. For this, though the flesh and blood of the children, was "that holy thing which was begotten of the Holy Ghost," and was taken into union with His eternal Deity, that He might be "Immanuel, God with us." The purity, holiness and innocence, the spotless beauty and complete perfection of this human nature, make it in itself exceedingly glorious; but its great glory is the union that it possesses...