My Beloved JESUS...
"My Beloved is white and ruddy." -Song of Solomon 5:10 [KJV] Pause, my soul, and contemplate thy Redeemer this morning under this engaging description of His person. It opens a delightful subject for meditation, in several points of view. Jesus is white and ruddy, if considered in His human nature only, He might be said to be white, in reference to the immaculate holiness of His body, underived as it was from a sinful stock like ours. He was born of the virgin Mary by the miraculous conception of the Holy Ghost, and therefore emphatically called, that HOLY THING: agreeably to all which, His whole life was without sin or shadow of imperfection. "Such an High Priest become us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." Hence Jesus was truly white, as the Lamb of God, without blemish, and without spot. And was He not ruddy also, in His bloody sufferings, when His head was crowned with thorns, and His side pierced on ...