Psalm 17:15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness. Dr. Lyman Abbott says, "The artist stands at his easel painting the portrait of one before him; and I go and look at it, and scowl and shrug my shoulders, and say, 'It is not like him; I can see the ghost of an appearance looking out through the lustreless eyes and the untrue features, but it is not my friend.' And the artist says, 'Wait! when I have finished the picture, and put the purpose — the soul — into it, then judge, not before.' So Christ sits for His portrait, and God takes me as a canvas, and paints, and ever and anon I grow foolish enough to look at myself, and shake my head in despair, amid say, 'That will never he a portrait.' Then I come back to His promise: 'You shall be satisfied when you awake in His likeness,' and I am satisfied beforehand in this hope that He gives me." Parallel Verses KJV: As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. |
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