the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 2
Psalms 123:1—Unto Thee do I lift up mine eyes, O Thou that sittest in the heavens. (R.V.)
These exquisite Songs of Ascents, prepared for the bands of worshippers as they went up from distant parts of the land to the greet annual festivals, are very precious to pilgrim-souls, as from many lands and ages they are gathering home to the throne of the exalted Lamb, who sits at the right hand of God the Father in the highest heavens. And as we journey, we lift up our eyes to his dear face—the face that once was wet with tears and dewed with bloody sweat, but which ere long will shine as the morning when He is anointed with the oil of joy above his fellows. Here is the Old Testament counterpart of the New Testament attitude—looking off unto Jesus.
The slave at the table kept the eye steadfastly fixed on the hand of master or mistress, to obey its least sign and to make it needless to speak. Keep your eye on the pierced hand, child of God; watch its smallest indication; wait patiently until it give some sign. We have too long acted on our own initiative; let us wait on our exalted Lord for the Indication of his will. Let us not look ask askance at the proud, with their contempt, or on the heaving billows of the world’s restless strife; but away to those azure depths and beyond, far above all principality, power, might, and dominion, where God hath exalted Him to be a Prince and a Savior. Let his least gesture be our law.
One day we shall follow the direction of our eyes. we gaze, we shall be changed; and as we are changed we shall arise to sit with Him on his throne.
"Break up the heavens, O Lord! and far
Through all yon starlight keen,
Draw me, thy bride—a glittering star
In raiment white and clean!"
