The more you know about Christ, the less satisfied you will be with shallow glimpses of him. Study deeply his transactions in the eternal covenant. Consider his engagements on your behalf as your eternal Surety. Trace the fullness of his grace that shines in all his offices. The deeper you go, the more truly you will see the King in his beauty.

Be much in such outlooks! Long more and more to see Jesus. Meditation and contemplation are like windows of agate and gates of carbuncle through which we behold our Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye. It enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen him even if we had lived in the days of his flesh. Would that our conversation were more in heaven! Would that we were more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord!

More meditation, and the beauty of the King will flash upon us with more resplendence.

Beloved, it is very probable that you will have such a sight of your glorious King as you never had before when you come to die. Many saints in dying have looked up from amidst the stormy waters and seen Jesus walking on the waves of the sea, heard him say, "It is I. Be not afraid." Ah, yes! When the tenement begins to shake, when the clay falls away, we see Christ through the rifts. Between the rafters, the sunlight of heaven comes streaming in.

But if we want to see face to face the "King in his beauty," we must go to heaven for the sight, or the King must come here in person. O that he would come on the wings of the wind! He is our Husband, and we are widowed by his absence. He is our Brother dear and fair, and we are lonely without him. Thick veils and clouds hang between our souls and their true life: when shall the day break and the shadows flee away? Oh, long-expected day, begin!