Christ Shall Come to be Glorified in His Saints

"And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem." -Zechariah 14:4 [KJV]

My soul, pause over this blessed promise. To whom could it refer, but to Jesus? "That day," through all the old testament dispensation, meant the gospel church of the new testament dispensation. And when the Son of God came, the day was come also. And did not Jesus stand often, during this day of His grace, in His own ministry, teaching the people on the mount of Olives? Yea, was it not the very last sacred spot on which His holy feet stood, when from thence He ascended to heaven, having finished redemption-work upon earth? My soul, do thou often, by faith, visit the hallowed ground, and from thence let thy meditation take wing, after thine ascended and exalted Saviour.

And while, like the wondering disciples, looking after Jesus as He went up, thou art contemplating the glory of thy Lord, Who is now above, carrying on all the blessed designs of His love, for which He came below; recollect the assurance, that the angels, who attended their Lord to grace His triumph, gave of His return: His feet shall again stand at the last day upon the earth. "He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe." 

Oh! for grace to be always on the look out for my Lord's return! Give me, blessed Jesus, to know Thee as my Kinsman-Redeemer; to know Thee as the Lord my righteousness; to be living upon Thee now by faith, that then I may enjoy Thee by living upon Thy fulness, as in grace here, so in glory to all eternity. Amen.

 

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

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