Looking
„And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”
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Zecharia 12:10
There are three excellent looks spoken of in the Word of God: Psalm 69:3: „My eyes fail while I wait for God”; and David’s comparison that he uses: „As the eyes of the watchmen wait for the morning, so wait we for Thee, O God.” And then to wait upon God in the day of trouble, that is an honest look also, that look spoken of Isaiah 17:7: „At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.” What day is that spoken of there? That day when the Lord shall visit Zion, and the Kirk shall be left desolate, and there shall be only as it were gleaning grapes in it; even that which is spoken of Isaiah 8:17: „I will wait upon the Lord that hideth His face, and I will look for Him.”
To look to the Lord when the wind blows motes and sand in your eyes, that is an honest look, and then to look to the kingdom of heaven, and farther than time into eternity; as it is, Hebrews 11:9, Abraham, content to dwell in tents, and to seek no abiding city here, because he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. And to have Moses’ look in the twenty-sixth verse of that chapter. He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, because he had respect to the recompense of reward. Moses looked higher than all the courtiers in Pharaoh’s court did - beyond time to eternity.
And a third good look is to look to slain Christ. When the Lord shall refine the house of David, and pour the spirit of supplications upon them, then they shall mourn when they look upon Him whom they have pierced. This condemns all the distorted looks that sinners in the world have, whatever they be. There is a look, Proverbs 21:4, a high look, the Lord cannot endure it. And Proverbs 23, for the eyes to behold strange women; and Isaiah 56:2: „They all look to their own way, every one for his gain from his quarter”; and that look, Ezekiel 18:15, that the house of Israel has its eyes toward the mountains and the hills. They look not to the Lord, but to their own gods. The Lord condemns all those who look not to Himself.
And that is sure, every man who in faith looks to God and Christ and heaven, he will follow his look. O! that we had hearts and eyes to seek Him, and to look after Him, and to Him who is able to do this for us: to draw our hearts and eyes towards Himself; to that Lord, only wise, eternal, immortal, invisible, to Christ’s Father and our Father, and Himself and the Holy Spirit, be all praise, glory, and honour now and for ever. Amen.
Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), minister and professor in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland
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