The Eyes of The LORD
"And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter." -Luke 22:61 My soul, hath that eye that looked so graciously upon Peter, looked graciously upon thee? Pause and determine the point by the effects. "Peter went out and wept bitterly." Hath such impressions of grace been upon thee, my soul? Hast thou wept over the recollection of sin and a ruined nature, which is continually manifesting itself in the same faithlessness and worthlessness as in the apostle? Moreover, hast thou ever looked with an eye of faith and love to Jesus? If so, it must be wrought by this eye of Christ upon thee, my soul: for, mark it, we never look to Him with an eye of faith, until Jesus hath first looked on us with an eye of love. If we love Him, it is because He first loved us. Sweet testimony this, if so be thou hast it in thine experience, that He that turned and looked upon Peter, hath looked on thee also. Moreover, any thing short of this glance of Jesus's eye, is short of all to i