All this glorious earth, with its trees and its flowers,
its sunbeams and its storms, is MINE. _I_ made it--_I_ can do what
I will with it. All the mysterious laws by which the light and the
heat flow out for ever from God's throne, to lighten the sun, and
the moon, and the stars of heaven--they are mine. _I_ am the light
of the world--the light of men's bodies as well of their souls; and
here is my proof of it. Look at Me. I am He that "decketh Himself
with light as it were with a garment, who layeth the beams of His
chambers in the waters, and walketh upon the wings of the wind."
This was the message which Christ's glory brought the apostles--a
message which they could never forget. The spiritual glory of His
countenance had shewn them that He was a spiritual king--that His
strength lay in the spirit of power, and wisdom, and beauty, and
love, which God had given Him without measure; and it shewed them,
too, that there was such a thing as a spiritual body, such a body as
each of us some day shall have if we be found in Christ at the
resurrection of the just--a body which shall not hide a man's
spirit, when it becomes subject to the wear and tear of life, and
disease, and decay; but a spiritual body--a body which shall be
filled with our spirits, which shall be perfectly obedient to our
spirits--a body through which the glory of our spirits shall shine
out, as the glory of Christ's spirit shone out through His body at
the transfiguration.
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