The completeness of what we shall be is not yet disclosed
directly. It is a hidden Glory! While in the flesh we could not endure the
sight of what we shall be. But we (children of God) know at His second coming, we
shall be like Christ! We shall actually be like Him in immortality, in
happiness, in holiness, in perfection, in purity. We shall be where He is. We
shall be everything desirable, that ever so many words can express. Like him in
a perfect freedom from sin, like him in the ardor and intense fervency of their
love; like him in the perfection of grace, and the unspotted purity of his holy
nature.
We are now the sons of God; this is the happiness of our
present condition, we are as children in their minority; we are not grown up
for the inheritance, but we are growing; we are not what we would be, we are
not what we should be; we are not what we shall be; but blessed be God we are
what we are; now are we the sons of God.
When we see Him as He is, we shall have “a clear and perfect
knowledge of God, wherein consists our intellectual happiness; and shall be
admitted into his immediate presence, where is all other happiness and glory,
of which we are capable.” Dr. Wells
There are certain things about Christ and God that we may
never fully understand or know while we are yet in the flesh even though full
of the Holy Ghost. John had seen Jesus Christ transfigured on the mount but this
too was partially obscured. The splendor of His infinite majesty reserved till
Christ comes again. Paul knew this too well and wrote to the Corinthians;
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I
know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (1 Corinthians
13:12, NKJV)
There is one thing which is clear, that we shall be like the
Son of God; but what is fully involved in this is not made known. We see dimly,
and that is why we have to apply our faith (remember we walk by faith and not
by sight). But then (when He is revealed – at His second coming), it shall be
face to face and I shall know Him fully. Hallelujah! On that day when He
appears, it doesn’t matter where you the child of God shall be: in the grave,
in a comma, asleep, in a theater being operated, in a wedding being married, in
church, in a ma3, at work, in a plane, in America or Africa, when He appears we
shall also appear with Him in Glory.
When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with
Him in glory. (Colossians 3:4 NKJV)
Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His
glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all
things to Himself. (Philippians 3:21 NKJV)
Our bodies shall be transformed that we may be clothed in an
immortal and glorious body. No more can we be subject to disease or pain or
suffering. We shall attain the highest form of peace and bliss.
And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also
bear the image of the heavenly Man. (1Corinthians 15:49, NKJV)
So what my friends, can anything separate us from this hope?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (Romans
8:18, NKJV)
Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor
powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any
other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord. Brother Job is a perfect example of a man who endured
it all for the joy of seeing Him face to face. His hope was so alive in him when
he said,
“And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I
shall see God” (Job 19:26, NKJV)
King David in his desire for God had this yearning that He
will see Him. David said,
“As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be
satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.” (Psalms 17:15, NKJV)
That is, his glory, with a clear and immediate sight, with a
full and comprehensive sight, with an assimilating and transforming sight, with
an appropriating and possessive sight, with a satisfying and everlasting sight.
There is one thing that is needful for you and me to do, if
we so have this hope in us. The desire to see Him face to face and to be in His
immediate presence: purify ourselves.
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He
is pure. (1 John 3:3 NKJV)
Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8,
NKJV)
None but the pure can see the infinitely Pure One.
Maranatha. Even so, come, Lord Jesus Christ!
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and
immortality, he will give eternal life; (Romans 2:7, RSV)
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