Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness. This is the language — 1. Of a man whose mind is made up, who has decided for himself. "As for me" — let others do as they will. 2. Of a man rising in life, and with great prospects before him. He had looked beyond this world, though he was to rise therein. 3. Of a Jew. For in Judah was God known; His name was great in Israel. And though their knowledge was dim, it was real; and here is an onlook to the blessed future life. I. THE BEHOLDING OF GOD'S FACE MEANT THE ENJOYMENT OF HIS FAVOUR. This its constant meaning. And in heaven "They shall see His face." All that means we cannot know now, but this one thing we know — II. HOW IT WILL BE REALISED. It will be in and through righteousness. For merit and meetness this is needed. Our title to behold God's face must be righteousness, and that we have in Christ. Our meetness and preparedness for it is righteousness, and this the Holy Spirit will work in us. No one longs for the Christian heaven but the Christian soul. (William Jay.) Parallel Verses KJV: As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. |
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