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Morning and Evening

June 10, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"They are they which testify of Me." — John 5:39 · KJV

Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of Him. At the creation we discern Him at once as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of Him in the promise of the woman's seed; we see Him typified in the ark of Noah; we walk with Abraham as he sees Messiah's day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and Jacob, feeding on the gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel speaking of Shiloh; and in the many types of the law we find the Redeemer abundantly foreshadowed. Prophets and kings, priests and preachers, all look one way—they all stand as the cherubim did over the ark, longing to look within and read the mystery of God's great atonement. Still more plainly in the New Testament we find our Lord the one pervading subject. It is not an ingot here and there, or gold dust thinly scattered; here you stand on a solid floor of gold, for the whole substance of the New Testament is Jesus crucified, and even its closing sentence is jeweled with the Redeemer's name. We should always read Scripture in this light. We should treat the word as a mirror into which Christ looks down from heaven, so that we, looking into it, see His face reflected as in a glass—darkly, it is true, but still in such a way as to be a blessed preparation for seeing Him face to face. This volume contains Jesus Christ's letters to us, perfumed by His love. These pages are the garments of our King, and they all smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Scripture is the royal chariot in which Jesus rides, and it is paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem. The Scriptures are the swaddling clothes of the holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Savior. The quintessence of the word of God is Christ.