Chapter 358—Christ Our Teacher Still
My people shall know my name: ... they shall know in that day that I
am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
Isaiah 52:6
.
Restored to His presence, man will again, as at the beginning, be taught
of God.
We have not the slightest idea of what will then be opened before us.
With Christ we shall walk beside the living waters. He will unfold to us the
beauty and glory of nature. He will reveal what He is to us, and what we are
to Him. Truth we cannot know now, because of finite limitations, we shall
know hereafter.
In the world to come Christ will lead the redeemed beside the river of
life and will teach them wonderful lessons of truth.... They will see that a
master hand holds the world in position. They will behold the skill displayed
by the great Artist in coloring the flowers of the field, and will learn of the
purposes of the merciful Father, who dispenses every ray of light, and with
the holy angels the redeemed will acknowledge in songs of grateful praise
God’s supreme love to an unthankful world.
There will be open to the student, history of infinite scope and of wealth
inexpressible.... The history of the inception of sin; of fatal falsehood in
its crooked working; of truth that, swerving not from its own straight lines,
has met and conquered error—all will be made manifest. The veil that
interposes between the visible and the invisible world will be drawn aside,
and wonderful things will be revealed....
With unutterable delight we shall enter into the joy and the wisdom of
unfallen beings. We shall share the treasures gained through ages upon ages
spent in contemplation of God’s handiwork. And the years of eternity, as they
roll, will continue to bring more glorious revelations. “Exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think” (
Ephesians 3:20
), will be, forever and forever,
the impartation of the gifts of God.
Every right principle, every truth learned in an earthly school, will
advance us just that much in the heavenly school.
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