LOOK TO CHRIST, The LORD JESUS!

"He made a feast unto all his princes, and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him. When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom, and the honour of his excellent majesty, many days, even an hundred and fourscore days." -Esther 1:3, 4  [KJV]

Who can read the account here given of the royalty and liberality of the Persian monarch, without having the mind immediately directed to look at the Lord Jesus, in His royalty and grace, and to consider both the extent of His bounty, and the honour of His excellent majesty, compared to which this earthly potentate sinks to nothing? What though his kingdom reached over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces, from India to Ethiopia? What is this to Him, whose dominion is "from sea to sea, and from the river even unto the ends of the earth;" yea, Who hath "all power in heaven and in earth," and hath "the keys of hell and the grave?" And what a day, in point of duration, was that feast, which, though extended to a hundred and fourscore, yet, when ended, left nothing to follow, but perhaps induced sickness and sorrow; when we contemplate that eternal and everlasting day, to which Jesus invites, and in which He entertains all His people, whom He hath made "kings and priests unto God and the Father," and where they shall not only feast with Him, and He with them, but shall sit down with Him on His throne, as He hath overcome, and is sat down with His Father, on His throne? And in this one eternal and never-ending feast of the Lord Jesus, from which the guests shall go out no more, there is nothing to nauseate, nothing unpleasant to mingle, but all is light, and joy, and peace, and unspeakable felicity.  

Here Jesus openly sheweth the riches of His glorious kingdom, and the honour of His excellent majesty! Here He brings His redeemed into a perfect acquaintance with Himself, and opens to their astonished unceasing contemplation and delight, the wonders of His person, and the wonders of His love; and fills their ravished souls "with joy unspeakable and full of glory," in the knowledge of "the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ." Hail, Thou glorious King of kings, and Lord of lords! Here Thou art making a feast of grace in Thine holy mountain, for all Thy poor and needy, and halt, and blind, whom Thou hast made the princes of Thy kingdom, and whom Thou wilt bring, in Thine own good time, to the everlasting feast of glory in Thy kingdom above! Grant me, blessed Jesus, to be one of the happy number who partake of Thy bounties of grace here, and sure I am, that I shall then one day sit down to the everlasting enjoyment of Thyself in the glories of heaven for ever! 

-Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.) 


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