Monday, April 25, 2022

Wearing the Appearance of a Slain Lamb

 Lo, in the midst of the throne . . . stood a Lamb as it had been slain.
Revelation 5:6
 
"WHY should our exalted Lord appear in His wounds in glory? 
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