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11/18 Reading Portions: 1 Chronicles 11-12; Hebrews 13; Amos 7; Luke 2
Luke 2:30
“…for my eyes have seen Your salvation…”
EYES
Simeon, awaiting the consolation of Israel, received the blessing of the Holy Spirit upon him as in the days of the prophets before the 400-year silence of God; and he was promised…
that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. Luke 2:26
Oh, what joy must have risen within his soul to see the Lord Jesus brought into the temple by Mary and Joseph! And lifting the holy Babe in his very own arms, he speaks mighty words worthy of eternal meditations. His own two eyes had seen God’s salvation— not merely the possibility of salvation, nor its idea or token; neither only the great Worker of salvation to come, but salvation Himself. Christ Jesus, in every respect, is the sum of gospel salvation. Every look upon Christ Jesus with the eye of faith— whether from an Old Testament prophecy, as a Babe in the manger, as a Boy in the temple, as the Rabbi of Galilee, as the Man of Sorrows hanging upon Golgotha’s tree, as the risen Lord outside the garden tomb, as the ascended King at the right hand of Majesty, or as the returning Judge on a white horse— Jesus is the essence and embodiment of all salvation. Though each view of God’s Messiah provides for us only an aspect of this salvation because of the weakness of our limited minds, everything that salvation is, and has, is found in the Lord, our Messiah; for…
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8
Every glance away from Christ is a turn of faith’s head away from salvation. This is how our flesh dishonors God and set its desires against the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:17). Our great God and Savior has given us so many blessed opportunities to see glorious salvation, for the footprints of Christ are everywhere in Scripture; and God willing, and by His grace, we may also see Jesus in our lives, and in the lives of others, as we sojourn on earth until He returns. Hallelujah! What a complete Savior!
Lord, let me, Your servant, know
Your Salvation— Your own Son;
And by Your grace, make me to grow
To be like Christ to everyone.
