4 Sermon Illustrations on Revelation of Christ

A solitary traveller lands upon some unknown coast at morning twilight. Mists veil the landscape and obscure the sky. Adjacent things assume unreal shapes, and distant ones are still more shrouded with vagueness and uncertainty. Upwards he walks along the beach, whose paths are washed by each returning tide, obliterating every step of man. He looks around, in this uncertainty, for something to direct him. With strained eyes he sees, or thinks he sees, the adjacent town; yet all may be but fancy or illusion. That which he takes to be the neighboring spire may only be some tall and upright tree; and that which seems the body of the church may prove a mound or hillock. Yet on he goes, believing, hoping, seeking; when, lo! the sun rises, mists disperse, uncertainty rolls westward her thick clouds of obscurity, and all the landscape brightens beneath his view in the full blaze of day. Thus it is with the man who fondly seeks in Nature's twilight to find out God, or understand him to perfection; and so irradiating is the light of revelation when it dawns upon the soul. Rayg

It was the vision of the Savior which transformed the whole being of Paul. And the apprehension of the person of the risen and ascended Son of God must forever change the one who has beheld Him.

Sir David Brewster says, in his life of Sir Isaac Newton, that the great astronomer on a certain occasion gazed steadfastly with his naked eyes on the sun shining in his meridian splendor. As a consequence, the impression in the retina was so deep that for days he could not see anything with distinctness--turn which way he would, he constantly beheld the image of the sun. He shut himself up for days in a dark room, but even there he could clearly discern the golden halo of the light. (Text.)