REVELATION i.9-18.
Let me take the simple words, and quietly gaze into the wonderful depths of their fathomless simplicity. An old villager used to tell me it would strengthen my eyes if I looked long into deep wells. And it will assuredly strengthen the eyes of my soul to gaze into wells like these.
|I am He that liveth.| What a marvellous transformation it worked upon Dr. Dale, when one day, in his study, it flashed upon him, as never before, that Jesus Christ is alive! |Christ is alive!| he repeated again and again, until the clarion music filled all the rooms in his soul. |Christ is alive!|
|And was dead.| Yes, the Lord has gone right through that dark place. There are footprints, and they are the footprints of the Conqueror, all along the road. |Christ leads me through no darker room than He went through before.|
|And, behold, I am alive for ever more.| |Jesus has conquered death and all its powers.| Never more will it sit on a transient throne. Its power is broken, its |sting| has lost its poison, there isn't a boast left in its apparently omnivorous mouth! |Where's thy victory, O grave?| And here is the gospel for me -- |Because I live ye shall live also.|