The Greater Glory of Jesus Christ
Charles Spurgeon
"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.
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