Where Do you Go to See the Glory of Christ?

-posted by Erik Raymond

(Z: Thanks for letting me guest post as you are away. I always enjoy this blog. Thanks also for stacking the deck with with stud guys so I won't feel so bad when I foul the ball off my foot.)

John Owen, in his wonderfully helpful and rich essay The Glory of Christ hits a home run here:

This is the sole foundation of all our meditations in this:

The glory that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the real actual possession of in heaven can be no otherwise seen or apprehended in this world, but in the light of faith fixing itself on divine revelation.

To behold this glory of Christ is not an act of fancy or imagination. It does not consist in framing to ourselves the shape of a glorious person in heaven. But the steady exercise of faith on the revelation and description made of this glory of Christ in the Scripture, is the ground, rule, and measure, of all divine meditations upon that. —John Owen,The Glory of Christ, p. 129

I love how Owen here draws us unto a faithfilled reliance upon the Scriptures. It is the Scripture that points to Christ (Luke 24.25-27; John 5.46) and it is the Spirit of God that glorifies Christ (John 16.14). Therefore, working together, God through his Word, to cause us to see and savor the glorious Christ!