"OPEN THOU MINE EYES"
Illustration★★★★In this great Book of Righteousness, this Old Testa- ment, a good many of us see but little into the gleam here and there; our eyes have not been opened to its breadth and depth and significance. I remember once looking over a magnificent piece of scenery-mountains, rocks and sea-and all of it bathed in the splendours of the setting sun. And I heard a lady close to me complain that she did not think much about it because it was all land and water.
Exactly. But, I say, what if Claude had been there?
What if Turner had been there? What would they have seen in that panorama of splendour and delight? What did your Master see in the Old Testament? If it is all land and water to you, what was it to your Master?
How Christ appealed to these prophets, minstrels, and seers, and how He brought out of this Old Testament all the won- drous things of the Sermon on the Mount! (Ps. cxix. 18).
The point
Christ saw depths and wonders in the Old Testament that most miss; we need Him to open our spiritual eyes to true meaning.