SEEING JESUS ONLY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 10.

SEEING JESUS ONLY.

[The following beautiful lesson is from “Bozatyky's Golden Treasury,” written 152 years ago.]

WHEN Cyrus took the king of Armenia, and his son Tigranes, and their wives and children, prisoners, and, upon their humble submission, beyond all hope, gave them their liberty and their lives, in their return home, as they were all commending Cyrus, some for his personage, some for his power, some for his clemency, Tigranes asked his wife:—

“What thinkest thou of Cyrus? Is he not a comely and a proper man, of majestic presence?”

“Truly,” said she, “I know not what manner of man he is; I never looked upon him.”

“Why,” said he, “where were thine eyes all the while? upon whom didst thou look?”

“I fixed mine eyes,” said she, “all the while upon him [meaning her husband] who in mine hearing offered to Cyrus to lay down his life for my ransom.”

Thus if any question the devout soul, once indeed captivated by the world, but now enamored by Christ, her heavenly Bridegroom, whether she is not charmed with the riches, pleasure, and gaieties of the world, her answer is that her eyes and her heart are now fixed on a nobler object, even on Him who not only made an offer like Tigranes, to die in her stead, but actually laid down His life to ransom her; and, as her dear Bridegroom is now in heaven, her looks are after Him, and she can esteem nothing on earth in comparison of Him.