A New View of Christ

 

A New View of Christ

So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.”

Joshua 5:14

There is always more of Christ for us to see. Christ is like a large, very finely detailed, landscape portrait. The longer we gaze upon Him, the more we see. As the Scripture unfolds, we see Him as ‘the seed of the woman,’ ‘Melchizedek, the King of Righteousness,’ ‘the Provided Lamb,’ ‘the King of Peace,’ and the Burning Bush. Here we see Him as ‘the Commander of the Lord’s Army.’ These are only a few examples of the abundance of perspectives which God gives us of the Person of Christ. Our own personal experience of Christ corroborates this idea. When we first saw Christ, we saw Him as the Dying Savior. As we have come to know Him more, day by day we have come to see Him as, ‘the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls.’ To our wondering eyes He has shown Himself to be ‘the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the Loving Bridegroom, the Root and the Offspring of David, and the Bright and Morning Star.’ We could pile title upon title, and description upon description and would, in doing so, barely scratch the surface of all that Christ is. In our text today, Christ is showing Himself to Joshua in a new way. This is the view of Christ which Joshua most needed at that particular moment of His life. We may have the reasonable expectation that Christ will do the same for us. Christ reveals Himself to us in the way in which we most need to see Him at the time. So today may Christ thus show Himself to us.

Our Gracious and Loving God.
We praise You for every new view of Christ, which You bestow upon us.
We rejoice in every fine detail of the Altogether Lovely One,
which You display to us with a never-ending revelation.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning