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Privilege of Open Communion With God, December 27
All Life´s Expiriences Will Be Made Plain
I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
are the temple of it.
Revelation 21:22
The people of God are privileged to hold open communion with the
Father and the Son. “Now we see through a glass, darkly.” We behold
the image of God reflected, as in a mirror, in the works of nature and in
His dealings with men; but then we shall see Him face to face, without a
dimming veil between. We shall stand in His presence and behold the
glory of His countenance.
We may address Him by the endearing name, “Our Father,” which
is a sign of our affection for Him and a pledge of His tender regard and
relationship to us. And the Son of God, beholding the heirs of grace,
“is not ashamed to call them brethren.” They have even a more sacred
relationship to God than have the angels who have never fallen.
All the paternal love which has come down from generation to gener-
ation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness
which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the
boundless ocean when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of
God.
Heaven is a ceaseless approaching to God through Christ. The longer
we are in the heaven of bliss, the more and still more of glory will be
opened to us; and the more we know of God, the more intense will be
our happiness.
And what is the happiness of heaven but to see God? What greater
joy could come to the sinner saved by the grace of Christ than to look
upon the face of God and know Him as Father?
How much comfort it gives to behold Him here by the eye of faith,
that we may by beholding be made like Him, but what will it be to behold
Him as He is, without one dimming veil between?
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