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WE WOULD SEE JESUS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Nov 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 44.

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"WE WOULD SEE JESUS."

By Arthur Carlyle Logan

"WE would see Jesus." We would see Him as He once walked this earth, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. We would see the spirit which characterized the life of the Saviour of men, that spirit that was exhibited in the lives of His disciples, a spirit of love and devotion. Where would we see this spirit?—In the lives of the followers of Jesus.
"We would see Jesus." We would see Him as He toiled at the carpenter's bench beside His earthly father. We would see that devotion which He exhibited in His daily life, that integrity which was characteristic of Him, never sacrificing principle. We would see the loyalty He showed to His heavenly Father as well as the honor to His earthly parents.
"We would see Jesus." We would see Him as He sat in the temple teaching those learned doctors of the law, astonishing them with His wisdom and penetration of the Scriptures. We would see Him as He taught the multitudes in the fields and woods, or by the lakeside, of the kingdom of heaven. Again we would see Jesus as in tender compassion He fed these multitudes in the wilderness, healed their diseases, relieved them of evil spirits, restored to them their dead, forgave their sins.
"We would see Jesus." We would see Him in Gethsemane, weeping over and praying for a fallen race, wrestling alone in the darkness of night in an agony of souls unapproached by any other man, His faith clinging to God, willing to do the Father's will, to drink the cup, that man might be saved.
We would see Jesus as He was led to Pilate's judgment hall, there to be condemned to death, and that the most ignominious; and then led out of the city, bearing His cross, to Golgotha, where the climax of that life of love was reached, where the Lamb of God, the slain from the foundation of the world, died that sinful, mortal man might have life.
"We would see Jesus." To-day we would see Him, in the lives of His professed followers. We would see the love He manifested, the kindness, the devotion, the sacrifice. These attributes are only revealed in those who walk in His footsteps, who emulate His Spirit, His words, His deeds, who live His life. O, that the world as it looks for these characteristics in Christians might find them all, and be led by that manifestation to follow Him!
ARTHUR CARLYLE LOGAN.