Our Savior's Highest Honor

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for December 20
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Our Savior's Highest Honor

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then
he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my
friends. Zech. 13:6. 


"I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away." Revelation 21:1. The fire that consumes the
wicked purifies the earth. Every trace of the curse is swept away. . . .


One reminder alone remains: Our Redeemer will ever bear the marks of His
crucifixion. Upon His wounded head, upon His side, His hands and feet,
are the only traces of the cruel work that sin has wrought. Says the
prophet, beholding Christ in His glory: "He had bright beams coming out
of his side: and there was the hiding of his power." Habakkuk 3:4,
margin. That pierced side whence flowed the crimson stream that
reconciled man to God--there is the Savior's glory, there "the hiding of
his power." . . . And the tokens of His humiliation are His highest
honor; through the eternal ages the wounds of Calvary will show forth
His praise and declare His power. 

The cross of Christ will be the science and the song of the redeemed
through all eternity. In Christ glorified they will behold Christ
crucified. Never will it be forgotten that He whose power created and
upheld the unnumbered worlds through the vast realms of space, the
Beloved of God, the Majesty of heaven, He whom cherub and shining seraph
delighted to adore--humbled Himself to uplift fallen man; that He bore
the guilt and shame of sin, and the hiding of His Father's face, till
the woes of a lost world broke His heart and crushed out His life on
Calvary's cross. That the Maker of all worlds, the Arbiter of all
destinies, should lay aside His glory and humiliate Himself from love to
man will ever excite the wonder and adoration of the universe. As the
nations of the saved look upon their Redeemer and behold the eternal
glory of the Father shining in His countenance; as they behold His
throne, which is from everlasting to everlasting, and know that His
kingdom is to have no end, they break forth in rapturous song: "Worthy,
worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His
own most precious blood!"

>From Maranatha - Page 362