OUR PRECIOUS SAVIOR

    In our nature, Christ suffered and died for us; in our nature he rose triumphant from the grave; and he now wears it before the throne of God. O how highly has Christ exalted human nature! He has elevated it to the right hand of God, to the greatest honors and the brightest state of felicity in the heaven of heavens. In glory, the redeemed shall be made like Christ; their bodies shall shine like his glorious body. Says an Apostle, "we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." At his glorious appearing on the resurrection morning, Christ shall call forth our sleeping dust. He will take these weak mortal bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use to conquer everything, everywhere.

Then shall we be with him, and be entirely like him to all eternity. Then shall we see him face to face in his heavenly kingdom, yes, we shall look into the very face of the blessed Jesus, and behold in that countenance the expressions of tenderest love for us, his redeemed. Then shall we see what a lovely Savior we have! And through eternal ages we shall be contemplating the glorious person of our Redeemer. Then shall we discern those excellencies in the person of Christ, which are now obscured by the veil of mortality. Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.

Precious Savior! Your name is as ointment poured forth. You are all our salvation and desire. We love you, because you have first loved us. Whom have we in heaven but you, and there is none upon earth that we desire besides you. You are our way to the Father, the way in which the redeemed journey through a wilderness world to the heavenly Canaan. You are the blessed day-star which illuminates our path through a bewildering world, and guides it safely over life's tempestuous ocean into the harbor of eternal glory. Blessed Redeemer, may I love and prize you more and more on earth, until, prepared for those happy mansions above, I bid adieu to this sinful, sorrowful world, enter into the joy of my Lord, and raise a never-ending song of praise in glory to you my Almighty Savior.

-preacher David Addison Harsha (1827 - 1895 A.D.)

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