WHAT a blessed theme the Person and Glory of our Lord! How
inexhaustible and unsearchable! How refreshing to the souls of His
redeemed people as well as to the heart of our heavenly Father, who,
loveth the Son! To meditate on Him, to behold the Glory of the Lord
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the Word of God, means
spiritual growth and spiritual enjoyment. This only can make the
unseen Person a blessed reality in our daily walk. We pray that all
our beloved readers are drawn closer to Himself through these brief
meditations. Can we truly say the Lord is more precious to our
hearts and that we are living more in His presence than ever before?
Has He become the absorbing object of our hearts and lives? Are we
more devoted to Him? God grant that this may be the case with all of
us. It is the great need we have. It is the good part, which Mary,
resting at His feet, had chosen.

In the great chapter which begins the Epistle to the Colossians,
after that blessed description of the Son of God, stands this word
"_that in all things He might have the pre-eminence_" (Col. i:18).
But who can tell out what a pre-eminence, the pre-eminence of the
Lord Jesus Christ is? Some day we shall see Him in all His Glory. He
Himself will lead us into the Holiest of the third heaven to behold
the Glory the Father has given Him (John xvii:24); then we shall
know His pre-eminence fully. And yet from Scripture we can learn
even now the pre-eminence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In all eternity the Son of God was the object of Love and Glory.

"Son of God the Father's bosom
Ever was Thy dwelling place."

He ever subsisted in the form of God. In all creation He has the
pre-eminence. This is made known to us, as man could not discover
it, by revelation. We accept this in faith. "Through faith we
understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that
things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" (Heb.
x:3). And all which was called into existence was created by Him and
for Him. "For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven,
and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were
created by Him and for Him" (Col. i:16). What a marvellous survey!
What power and glory belongs to the blessed Son of God! "All things
were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was
made." "The world was made by Him" (John i:3, 10