John Owen's The Glory of Christ

I read John Owen's The Glory of Christ during Christmas break to set the tone for 2026. I finished reading the book this morning, so I had to write this entry down. 

Owen wrote The Glory of Christ in his twilight years. The book was published in 1684, one year after his death. 

So much wisdom and joy are contained in its pages. The epub file in my Kindle contains many highlights of passages and ideas that spoke to me. I turn to them regularly. Consider the following: 

For being once touched by the love of Christ, receiving therein an impression of secret ineffable virtue, they will ever be in motion, and restless, until they come unto him, and behold his glory. That soul which can satisfied without it—that cannot be eternally satisfied with it—is not a partaker of the inefficacy of his intercession. 

The passage echoes Augustine's "Our hearts our restless until they find rest in Thee," and speaks to our modern era, where many people strive to achieve something in this life, without care for eternal matters. 

Owen's meditation on the Christian's need to meditate on the glory of Christ unpacks the depths of God's wisdom and love as contained in His Word.

I'm expecting a busy week. I'll be posting some more about this book. If you're interested, you can get hold of a free copy in Monergism.