{"id":5646,"date":"2013-05-16T10:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:35:28","slug":"come-and-see-havergal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2013\/05\/16\/come-and-see-havergal\/","title":{"rendered":"Come and See (Havergal)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following is taken from\u00a0The Royal Invitatio<\/em>n, a\u00a0new online devotional<\/a>\u00a0available at the BLB.\u00a0The Royal Invitation<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is one of five books contained in a collection written by\u00a0Frances Ridley Havergal<\/strong>\u00a0in the 1880s. This book embraces the many requests from God\u2019s word for us to \u2018come\u2019 to Him. (Click here for previous posts)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Come and See.<\/h3>\n

He (Jesus) said to them, \u201cCome and see.\u201d …<\/span>
\n And Nathanael said to [Philip], \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d<\/span>
\n Philip said to him, \u201cCome and see.\u201d<\/span>
\n (John 1:39,46)<\/span><\/p>\n

When Jesus had found Philip, Philip knew that he had found Him. And the next thing to knowing that “we have found Him” is to find some one else, and say, “Come and see!”<\/em> I say it now to you, dear friend, known or unknown, “We have found Him!” (Jhn 1:45) “We see Jesus!” If you only knew the irresistible longing, the very heart’s desire that you should find and see Him too, you would pardon all the pertinacity, all the insistence, (Jer 20:9) with which again and again we say, Come and see!<\/p>\n

When the woman of Samaria met Jesus, she left her water-pot and went her way into the city with the same message” “Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did.” And we to whom Jesus has said,”‘I that speak unto thee am He,'” (Jhn 4:26) cannot do otherwise or less.<\/p>\n

We have seen by faith the only sight that is worth gazing upon, the sight that satisfies the angels, the sight that is enough for the joy and satisfaction of immortal vision throughout eternity (Jhn 9:25). One thing we know, that, whereas we were blind, now we see.<\/p>\n

We see Jesus, as our Lord and God.<\/p>\n

We see Him as the very Saviour we need, and the very Friend we craved.<\/p>\n

We see Him as “the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.”<\/p>\n

We see Him wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; our Substitute and our Sin-bearer.<\/p>\n

We see Him, (Hbr 2:9) too, crowned with glory and honor, and we rejoice in His glory and beauty; (Zec 9:17) we make our boast of Him.<\/p>\n

If you say to us, “What is thy Beloved more than another beloved?”We reply, “My beloved is the chiefest among ten thousand. (Psa 45:2) Yea, He is altogether lovely.”<\/p>\n

We love our Lord, so that we cannot bear Him not to be esteemed aright.<\/h3>\n

We cannot bear Him to be thought little of, and to be misunderstood (Isa 53:3); it is pain, real pain, to us when He is not appreciated and loved and adored\u2014when all that He has done is treated as not worth whole-hearted gratitude and love\u2014when His great and blood-bought salvation is neglected (Hbr 2:3). For His own beloved sake, for His own glory’s sake, we want others to come and see, that you they love and bless and glorify Him!<\/p>\n

But, remember, this is not only our feeble human appleal; it is Jesus Himself who first said, and still says, “Come and see!” He says, “Behold Me, behold Me!” (Isa 65:1).<\/p>\n

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