# “Panting for the glory of Christ” by John Owen

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- Published: 2010-08-04T09:55:45-05:00
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“This I know: that in the immediate beholding of the person of Christ we shall see
a glory in it a thousand times above what here we can conceive. The excellencies
of infinite wisdom, love, and power therein, will be continually before us.

And all the glories of the person of Christ which we have before weakly and faintly
inquired into, will be in our sight forevermore. Hence the ground and cause of our
blessedness is that ‘we shall ever be with the Lord,’ (1 Thess. 4:17), as He Himself
prays, ‘that we may be with Him where He is, to behold His glory’ (John 17:24).

We cannot perfectly behold it until we are with Him where He is. There our sight
of Him will be direct, intuitive, and constant. There is a glory, there will be 
so, subjectively in us in the beholding of this glory of Christ, which is at present
incomprehensible.

For it doth not yet appear what we ourselves shall be (cf. 1 John 3:2). Who can 
declare what a glory it will be in us to behold this glory of Christ? And how excellent,
then, is that glory of Christ itself? This immediate sight of Christ is that which
all the saints of God in this life do breathe and pant after.”

–John Owen, [“Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ,” in ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851511236?tag=toletaupanre-20)_
[The Works of John Owen](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851511236?tag=toletaupanre-20)_,
ed. William Goold, 24 vols. (Edinburgh: Johnson & Hunter; 1850-1855; reprint by 
Banner of Truth, 1965), Vol. 1:379.

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