For In A Moment ... We Shall All be Changed

Until His image burns 
itself upon the soul

(J.R. Miller)

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding 
as in a mirror the glory of the LORD, are 
being transformed into the same image!" 
2 Corinthians 3:18

It is not merely a brief glance now
and then, which is here implied;
not the turning of the eye toward
HIM for a few hurried moments
in the early morning or
in the late evening--
but a constant, loving,
and reverent beholding
of HIM through days and
years, until His image 
burns itself upon the soul.

If we thus train the eyes of our heart
to look at CHRIST, we shall be
transformed into HIS image.

And even though but little seems
to come from our yearnings and
struggles after Christ-likeness,
GOD honors the yearning and
striving, and while we sit in
the shadows of weariness,
disheartened with our failures--
HE carries on the work within us,
and with HIS own hands produces
the Divine beauty in our souls!

"We know that when HE is revealed, 
we shall be like HIM, for we shall 
see HIM as HE is!" 1 John 3:2

"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We 
shall not all sleep, but we shall all 
be changed, In a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: 
for the trumpet shall sound,  and the 
dead shall be raised incorruptible, 
and we shall be changed.

  
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