7. He shall drink of the brook in the way. So swiftly will he march to conquest that he will not stay for refreshment, but drink as he hastens on. Like Gideon’s men that lapped, he will throw his heart into the fray and cut it short in righteousness, because a short work will the Lord make in the earth. Therefore shall he lift up the head. His own head will be lifted high in victory, and his people, in him, will be upraised also. When he passed this way before, he was burdened and had stern work laid upon him; but in his second advent he will win an easy victory; aforetime he was the man of sorrows, but when he comes a second time his head will be lifted in triumph. Let his saints rejoice with him. “Lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.” In the latter days we look for terrible conflicts and a final victory. Long has Jesus borne with our rebellious race, but at length he will rise to end the warfare of long-suffering, by the blows of justice. O King-Priest, we who are, in a minor degree, king-priests too are full of gladness because thou reignest even now, and will come ere long to establish thine empire forever.
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