“BUT WE SEE JESUS”

“BUT WE SEE JESUS”

How do we “See Jesus?” Not by means of mysterious dreams or ecstatic
visions, not by the exercise of our imagination, nor by a process of
visualization; but by faith. Just as Christ declared, in John 8:56,
“Abraham rejoiced to see My day and he saw it, and was glad.” Faith is
the eye of the spirit, which views and enjoys what the Word of God
presents to its vision. In the Gospels, Acts, Epistles, Revelation, God
has told us about the exaltation of His Son; those who receive by faith
what He has there declared, “SEE Jesus crowned with glory and honour,”
as truly and vividly as His enemies once saw Him here on earth “crowned
with thorns.”

It is this which distinguishes the true people of God from mere
professors. Every real Christian has reason to say with Job, “I have
heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye SEETH Thee”
(42:5). He has “seen” Him leaving heaven and coming to earth, in order
to “seek and to save that which was lost.” He has “seen” Him as a
sacrificial Substitute on the cross, there bearing “our sins in His own
body on the tree. He has “seen” Him rising again in triumph over the
grave, so that because He lives, we live also. He has “seen” Him highly
exalted, “crowned with glory and honour.” He has “seen” Him thus
presented to the eye of faith in the sure Word of God. To him the
testimony of Holy Scripture is infinitely more reliable and valuable
than the testimony of his senses.

Arthur W. Pink

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