Lo, in the midst of the throne . . . stood a Lamb as it had been slain.
Revelation 5:6
The wounds of Jesus are
His glories, His jewels, His sacred ornaments.
To the eye of the
believer, Jesus is passing fair because He is "white and ruddy" white
with innocence, and ruddy with His own blood.
We see Him as the lily of
matchless purity, and as the rose crimsoned with His own gore.
Jesus wears the appearance of a
slain Lamb as His court dress in which He wooed our souls.... Nor are these only the ornaments of
Christ: they are the trophies of His love and of His victory.
He
has divided the spoil with the strong.
He has redeemed for Himself a
great multitude whom no man can number, and these scars are the
memorials of the fight. Ah! if Christ thus loves to retain the thought
of His sufferings for His people, how precious should his wounds be to us!"
Charles Spurgeon
