DAILY READINGS: Judges 20; Isaiah 38-39; 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Mt. 3:17
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Mt. 17:5
Mark these same words coming from the same heaven about the same blessed Person but on two occasions. The one was beside a river, the other on a high mountain; the one at the commencement of the Lord’s public ministry, the other towards the end. In the first, the onlookers had to learn that Christ was distinct and different from the crowds who were confessing their sins when baptized by John. In the second, the three favoured disciples had to learn that Christ was distinct and different from every other man of God who had ever appeared on earth before. —W. P. M.
No mortal can with Him compare among the sons of men;
Fairer is He than all the fair that fill the heavenly train.—Samuel Stennet