Grace, and grace alone, could save a wretch like me. I could not die for my own sins. Christ had to die for me. A thousand deaths would not atone for my eternity; Christ's blood, and His alone, bought my sanctity. His light, and His alone, shined deep within my soul....
"And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. We hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Isaiah 53: 2-3 Who can SEE what is heavenly? Who can experience the supernatural beauty of that which is above...
To sum up our meditation of Jesus' revelation of the Father---"our Father" of grace and glory---John's recollections are used last. John was "the disciple that Jesus loved." Being closer to John than any other man on earth Jesus perhaps made more of an impact on him...