But the last enemy,
with all his malice and all his resistless power, cannot touch our moral
character--unless it be in some way utterly mysterious to us that he is
made under God to refine and perfect it. The Express Image carried up to
His Father's House, not only the divine life He had brought hither with
Him when He came to obey and submit and suffer among us; He carried back
more than He brought, for He carried back a human heart, a human life, a
human character, which was and is a new wonder in heaven. He carried up
to heaven all the love to God and angels and men He had learned and
practised on earth, with all the earthly fruits of it. He carried back
His humility, His meekness, His humanity, His approachableness, and His
sympathy. And we see to our salvation some of the uses to which those
parts of His moral character are at this moment being put in His Father's
House; and what we see not now of all the ends and uses and employments
of our Lord's glorified humanity we shall, mayhap, see hereafter. And we
also shall carry our moral character to heaven; it is the only thing we
have worth carrying so far.
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