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Children of the Heavenly King, December 13
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:2, 3
.
The invitation is, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate,
... and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be
my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (
2 Corinthians 6:17,
18
). Oh, what an exaltation is this—to be members of the royal family,
children of the heavenly King! To have the Saviour of the universe, the
King over all kings, know us by name, and to be heirs of God to the
immortal inheritance, the eternal substance! This is our privilege; will we
have the prize? Will we fight the battles of the Lord? Will we press the
battle to the gate? Will we be victorious? I have decided that I must have
heaven, and I want you to have it....
Search the Bible, for it tells you of Jesus. I want you to read the Bible
and see the matchless charms of Jesus. I want you to fall in love with the
Man of Calvary, so that at every step you can say to the world, His “ways
are ways of pleasantness, and all” His “paths are peace” (
Proverbs 3:17
).
You want to represent Christ to the world. You want to show to the world
you have a hope big with immortality. You want to drink of the waters of
salvation. You want the heavenly angels to be in your dwelling. You want
Christ to abide there....
Praise the Lord, oh, my soul! He says He has gone to prepare mansions
for me: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in
me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where
I am, there ye may be also” (
John 14:1-3
).
Thank God! It is these mansions that I am looking to. It is not the
earthly mansions here, for they are to be shaken down by the mighty
earthquake erelong; but it is those heavenly mansions that Christ has gone
to prepare for the faithful. We have no home here. We are only pilgrims
and strangers here, passing to a better country, even an heavenly.... May
God help us to win the boon of eternal life.
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