Evening, August 26

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"The people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to
   him saluted him."

  Mark 9:15

   How great the difference between Moses and Jesus! When the prophet of
   Horeb had been forty days upon the mountain, he underwent a kind of
   transfiguration, so that his countenance shone with exceeding
   brightness, and he put a veil over his face, for the people could not
   endure to look upon his glory. Not so our Saviour. He had been
   transfigured with a greater glory than that of Moses, and yet, it is
   not written that the people were blinded by the blaze of his
   countenance, but rather they were amazed, and running to him they
   saluted him. The glory of the law repels, but the greater glory of
   Jesus attracts. Though Jesus is holy and just, yet blended with his
   purity there is so much of truth and grace, that sinners run to him
   amazed at his goodness, fascinated by his love; they salute him, become
   his disciples, and take him to be their Lord and Master. Reader, it may
   be that just now you are blinded by the dazzling brightness of the law
   of God. You feel its claims on your conscience, but you cannot keep it
   in your life. Not that you find fault with the law, on the contrary, it
   commands your profoundest esteem, still you are in nowise drawn by it
   to God; you are rather hardened in heart, and are verging towards
   desperation. Ah, poor heart! turn thine eye from Moses, with all his
   repelling splendour, and look to Jesus, resplendent with milder
   glories. Behold his flowing wounds and thorn-crowned head! He is the
   Son of God, and therein he is greater than Moses, but he is the Lord of
   love, and therein more tender than the lawgiver. He bore the wrath of
   God, and in his death revealed more of God's justice than Sinai on a
   blaze, but that justice is now vindicated, and henceforth it is the
   guardian of believers in Jesus. Look, sinner, to the bleeding Saviour,
   and as thou feelest the attraction of his love, fly to his arms, and
   thou shalt be saved.