Are you longing to have Him, to have the perfect Christ
Jesus? Come, then, and see how, amid the glories of His Godhead--His
having been in the form of God, and equal to God; amid the glories of
His incarnation--His having become a man; amid the glories of His
atonement--His having been obedient to death; and amid the glories of His
exaltation, which is the chief and brightest glory, He humbled Himself from
Heaven down to earth and on earth down to the cross. He humbled Himself to
bear the name and show the meekness, and die the death of the Lamb of God.
And what is it we now need to do? How are we to be saved by this humility
of Jesus? It is a solemn question, but, thank God, the answer can be given.
First we must desire it above everything. Let us learn to pray God to
deliver us from every vestige of pride, for this is a cursed thing. Let us
learn to set aside for a time other things in the Christian life, and begin
to plead with the Lamb of God day by day, "O Lamb of God, I know Thy love,
but I know so little of Thy meekness.
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