The Moral Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
John 1:14; Luke 2:52

The Moral Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ
The glories of the Lord Jesus are threefold: personal, official, and moral. His personal glory He veiled, save where faith discovered it, or an occasion demanded it. His official glory He veiled likewise; He did not walk through the land as either the Divine Son from the bosom of the Father, or as the authoritative Son of David. Such glories were commonly hid, as He passed on in the circumstances of life day by day.

But His moral glory could not be hid. He could not be less than perfect in everything—it belonged to Him, it was Himself. From its intense excellency, it was too bright for the eye of man; and man was under constant exposure and rebuke from it. But there it shone, whether man could bear it or not. It now illuminates every page of the four Gospels.

It has been said of the Lord, "His humanity was perfectly natural in its development." This is very beautiful and true. Luke 2:52 would verify this. There was nothing of unnatural progress in Him: all was orderly increase. His wisdom kept pace with His stature, or age. He was the Child first, then the Man. By and by, as a man, God's Man in the world, He will testify of the world that its works are evil (Jn. 7:7), and be hated by it. In such conditions He grew in favor with God and man. But though there was progress in Him, as we thus see, there was no cloud, or perversion, or mistake; in this He distinguished Himself from all.

J. G. Bellett
Savior, we Thy path retrace, patient love and lowly grace,Matchless, holy, all Thy ways; Savior, we adore Thee.

W. W. Fereday