The Desire of Ages

1. "God With Us"

His name shall be called Immanuel,...God with us."
"The light of knowledge of the glory of God" is seen "im the face of Jesus Christ." From the Days of eternity the Lord Jesus Christ was one with the Father; He was "the image of God," The image of His greatness and majesty, "the outshinning of his glory." It was to manifest this glory that He came to our world. To this sin-darkened earth He came to reveal the light of God's love,-to be with us." Therefore it was prophesied of Him,"His name shall be called Immanuel."

    By coming to dwell with us,Jesus was to reveal God both to men and to angels. He was the word of God,--God's thought made audible. In his prayer for His disciples He says, "I have declared unto them my name," --merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,"--that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them." Bunt nit alone for His earthborn children was this revelation given. Our little world is the lesson book of the universe. God's wonderful purpose of grace, the mystery of redeeming love, is the themeinto which "angels desire to look," and it will be their study throughout endless ages. Both the redeemed and the unfallen beings will find in the cross of Christ their science and their song. It will be seen that the glory shinning in the face of Jesus is the glory of self-sacrificing love. In the loght from Calvary it will be seen that the lawlf self-renouncing love is the law of life for earth and heaven; that the love which "seeketh not her own" has it's source in the heart of God; and that in the meek and lowly one is manifested the character of Him who dwelleth in the light which no man can approach unto.