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OUR LORD’S DIVINE NATURE

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, received up in glory. - 1 Timothy 3:16

THE Divine nature of the Lord Jesus Christ is woven through the whole of the Book of Revelation, like a golden thread, and manifestly is needed to explain the fact of this solemn ascription of praise (see Revelation 1:5-6) to Him, as well as to warrant the application of each clause of it to His will. For John to lift up his voice in this grand doxology to Jesus Christ was blasphemy, if it was not adoration of Him as Divine. He may have been right or wrong in his belief, but surely the man who sang such a hymn to his Master believed Him to be the Incarnate Word, God manifest in the flesh. If we share that faith, we can believe in Christ’s present love to us all. It is no misty sentiment or rhetorical exaggeration to believe that every man, woman, and child that is or shall be on the earth till the end of time has a distinct place in His heart, is an object of His knowledge and of His love.

This one word, then, is the revelation to us of Christ’s love, as unaffected by time. Our thoughts are carried by it up into the region where dwells the Divine nature, above the various phases of the fleeting moments which we call past, present, and future. These are but the lower layer of clouds which drive before the wind, and melt from shape to shape. He dwells above in the naked, changeless blue.

As of all His nature, so, blessed be His Name! of His love we can be sure that time cannot bound it. We say, not, "It was," or, " It will be," but we can proclaim the changeless, timeless, majestic present of that love which burns and is not consumed, but glows with as warm a flame for the latest generations as for those men who stood within the reach of its rays while He was on earth. " I am the First and the Last," says Christ, and His love partakes of that eternity. It is like a golden fringe which keeps the web of creation from raveling out. Before the earliest of creatures was this love. After the latest it shall be. It circles them all around, and locks them all in its enclosure. It is the love of the Divine heart, for it is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. It is the love of a human heart, for that heart could shed its blood to loose us from our sins. Shall we not take this love for ours? The heart that can hold all the units of all successive generations, and so love each that each may claim a share in the grandest issues of its love, must be a Divine heart, for only there is there room for the millions to stand, all distinguishable and all enriched and blessed by that love. Is there any meaning but exaggerated sentiment in this word of Revelation, any meaning that will do for a poor heart struggling with its own evil, and with the world’s miseries and devilries, to rest upon, unless we believe that Christ is Divine, and loves us with an everlasting love because He is God manifest in the flesh?

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