Meditation on Jesus

"The more you know about Christ, the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of Him; and the more deeply you study His transactions in the eternal covenant, His engagements on your behalf as the eternal security, and the fullness of His grace that shines in all His offices, the more truly will you see the King in His beauty. Learn to look at Him this way. Long increasingly to see Jesus. Meditation and contemplation are often like windows of gold and gates of silver through which we behold the Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye and enables us to see Jesus in a better fashion than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His earthly sojourn. Our conversation ought to be more in heaven, and we should be more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord."

—Charles Spurgeon

God Sightings (in our daily life) which Corroborate God’s Character as Revealed Scripture

Regarding hessed in Isaiah 63.7-11—"He is a God of unfailing kindness, grace, mercy, and love. Circumstances may change; our rebellions may even make Him our enemy. But the hessed of God never changes; and when we recount all that God has done in our experience, it will end up in praise for who He is. The emphasis on memory, both here and again in vs. 11, is at the heart of biblical faith. Because God had chosen to reveal Himself in the context of human experience and because He had shown Himself to be utterly consistent, the primary way to come to know Him was through reflecting on what He had said and done in the context of that experience."

—John Oswalt

Now, we have a record of that experience as Scripture. Still, God reveals Himself in the manifestations of His character into our experiences and those 'God sightings' correspond to the revealed truth of Scripture!

The Importance of Theology Proper

It is imperative that we study and meditate on the character of God. If we are to love and glorify God (Matthew 22.37-40), we have to know who He is (Ephesians 1.17). This study ought not be resigned to a passive reading or only something we look at when the church provides an opportunity—it is to be our great passion! As the Apostle Paul says, everything is a loss compared to “the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3.8).

When we are at a time of great need, or moments of wonderful joy, we will lean on that which has most fervently occupied our attention. For some of us we may fall back into sinful habits, others may lean on worry, some legalists may rely on Christian works...all of which are a diversion from the life of abiding in Jesus (John 15). Studying the character of God empowers living a life of grace.

A Simple Reminder

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him."

—Jesus

"How fortunate I am to sacrifice all for God! But this all is nothing in comparison to what our Savior sacrificed for us, from the crib to the Cross...Oh the grandeur of infinite love! A love which is not known, a love which is unreturned by the majority of men."

—Teresa of the Andes (Chile/1900)