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Chapter 19 |
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These Greeks came to two of Christ’s disciples and asked them to introduce them to their Master. A little child was dying, and she said she was not afraid to die, for she was going to be with Jesus. But she wished so much that her mother would come with her to introduce her. “For you know, mother,” said the little one, “that I was always afraid of strangers.” But no one will find Jesus a stranger. He loves to be sought and to have people want to see Him. Yet it is always a precious privilege to be permitted to introduce another person to Him.
The reply of Jesus to the request of these Greek visitors was, “The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.” By the “hour” He referred to the time of His death, the hour toward which He had been moving through all the years of His life. Every one of us is moving toward our “hour.” It is not marked on any earthy calendar; we do not know in what year, or in what month, or day, it lies, but it is fixed in the plan of God, and we shall come to it at the appointed time. It seems strange to us to have Jesus speak of His death as His being glorified. He died on a cross of shame. It seemed to the world as the extinction of all glory for Him. He Himself, however, explained the meaning in the words, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” A grain of wheat laid away carefully in a dry place, remains simply a grain of wheat, with no increase. It cannot thus reach its best. It is only when it is cast away, as it seems, and falls into the ground and perishes as to it’s from, that it is really glorified, springing up into a harvest of golden wheat.
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