THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD IS IN CHRIST. We are to learn what our God is, and what we may expect Him to do for us. What Jesus was to those about Him, such Jehovah is; what Jesus did and was willing to do, that our God is willing to do for us. In Jesus we see tender love, melting compassion, and gracious forbearance; mercy and power, rectitude and pity, holiness and longsuffering, justice and righteousness, united. Such is our God. Fury is not in Him. Love is His name and His nature. And can you slavishly fear such a God? Can you wilfully sin against and grieve such a Being? Can you not believe His word, depend upon His veracity, rejoice in His name, and expect from Him every promised good? For this purpose His word was written, His name was published, and Jesus came to earth for us. Always look at God in Christ; attempt not to learn God from nature. "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him."

For Meditation:
Till God in human flesh I see,
My thoughts no comfort find;
The holy, just, and sacred Three,
Are terrors to my mind:
But if Immanuel's face appear,
My soul surmounts my faithless fear.