Morning, August 3
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Revelation 21:23
"The Lamb is the light thereof."
Revelation 21:23
Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture
is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in
this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept
us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus. Each one
of these thoughts shall be to them like a cluster of the grapes of
Eshcol. Light is also the cause of beauty. Nought of beauty is left
when light is gone. Without light no radiance flashes from the
sapphire, no peaceful ray proceedeth from the pearl; and thus all the
beauty of the saints above comes from Jesus. As planets, they reflect
the light of the Sun of Righteousness; they live as beams proceeding
from the central orb. If he withdrew, they must die; if his glory were
veiled, their glory must expire. Light is also the emblem of knowledge.
In heaven our knowledge will be perfect, but the Lord Jesus himself
will be the fountain of it. Dark providences, never understood before,
will then be clearly seen, and all that puzzles us now will become
plain to us in the light of the Lamb. Oh! what unfoldings there will be
and what glorifying of the God of love! Light also means manifestation.
Light manifests. In this world it doth not yet appear what we shall be.
God's people are a hidden people, but when Christ receives his people
into heaven, he will touch them with the wand of his own love, and
change them into the image of his manifested glory. They were poor and
wretched, but what a transformation! They were stained with sin, but
one touch of his finger, and they are bright as the sun, and clear as
crystal. Oh! what a manifestation! All this proceeds from the exalted
Lamb. Whatever there may be of effulgent splendour, Jesus shall be the
centre and soul of it all. Oh! to be present and to see him in his own
light, the King of kings, and Lord of lords!