We Shall See The Face Of GOD In CHRIST!

All happiness, all satisfaction 

is comprehended in this!
(Maria Sandberg, "Glimpses of Heaven!" 1880)

"They will see HIS face!"
Revelation 22:4

What a promise is this!

We shall see the face of GOD and

the LAMB who was slain for us!

We shall see the face of GOD in CHRIST!

We shall see JESUS, whom having 

not seen, we love! All happiness, all 

satisfaction is comprehended in this! 

Long have we believed, though we have 

not seen; long have we desired the glorious 

vision of HIM whom our souls love--

then shall it be realized! 

We shall see HIS face!

If it has been our great delight here below 

to hear of HIS loveliness and beauty, and 

to have a spiritual sense of HIS presence--

what will it be to see the substance of our hope! 

Yet this happiness will most assuredly 

be ours--we shall see HIS face!

While we meditate on this hope, may 

it exercise its transforming power upon us, 

and conform us now to the image of CHRIST! 

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding 

as in a mirror the glory of the LORD--

are being transformed into the same 

image from glory to glory!" 2 Corinthians 3:18

If we hope hereafter to see HIS face,
we must now be, in some measure,
changed into the same image. The same
holy character must be formed in us,
which was in CHRIST JESUS.

HE has set us an example, that
we should walk in HIS steps--
in HIS steps . . .

  of humility,

  of self-denial,

  of devotion,

  of love to GOD and men, and

  of zeal for the glory of GOD.

Are we treading in these steps?
Do we bear HIS image now?

In one sense, all, both just and unjust,
will see the face of CHRIST; but if we
would see HIS face with joy, and
continue in the everlasting vision of it--
we must bear the image of CHRIST now.

Let us come down from the mount
of heavenly meditation, retaining this
truth in our memories, and resolved
henceforth to seek more earnestly
the grace and help of the HOLY SPIRIT,
by whom we shall be conformed
to the likeness of our SAVIOR!

"JESUS, my SAVIOR, let me be,

 More perfectly conformed to THEE.

 Implant each grace--each sin dethrone,

 And form my temper like TYH own!"

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GraceGems has published Maria Sandberg's choice 64 page devotional booklet,
 "Glimpses of Heaven!"