"WE Shall See HIM Just As HE Is"

Our best striving
(J.R. Miller)

"Not that I have already obtained 
all this, or have already been made 
perfect, but I press on" Philippians 3:12 

The highest reaches of holiness 
which we can attain here on earth, 
are but broken fragments of the full 
Divine beauty. 

At the best, we can only become 
dimly transfigured; only faintly does 
the beauty of the Lord appear in us. 

The last design made by the great 
painter, Albert Diirer, was a painting 
showing CHRIST on HIS cross. 
It was all completed, except the face 
of the Divine Sufferer, when the artist 
was summoned away by death. 

Just so, at the end of 
the longest and holiest life--

we shall have but a part 
of the picture of CHRIST  
wrought upon our soul. 

Our best striving shall attain 
but a fragment of HIS matchless 
beauty. We cannot reproduce 
the glory of that incomparable Face. 

But when we depart from our little 
fragment of transfiguration, we shall 
look a moment afterward upon the 
Divine features, and, seeing JESUS--
we shall transformed into HIS lovely image!

"Beloved, now we are children 
of GOD, and it has not appeared 
as yet what we will be. We know 
that when HE appears, we will be 
like HIM, because we will see HIM 
just as He is!" 1 John 3:2 

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