We shall see HIM as HE is!
(Thomas Boston, "Human Nature in its Fourfold State")
1 John 3:2
Then we shall behold HIM who died
for us, that we might live forevermore;
whose matchless love made HIM swim
through the Red Sea of GOD'S wrath,
to make a path in the midst of it for us,
by which we might pass safely to our
heavenly Canaan. Then we shall see
what a glorious one HE is, who suffered
all this for us!
Then shall we be more able to understand,
how wide, how long, how high, and how
deep HIS love really is.
When we shall fully realize that the waters
of wrath which HE was plunged into, are
the wells of salvation from whence we draw
all our joy; that we have received the cup
of salvation, in exchange for the cup
of wrath which HE drank--
how will our hearts leap within us,
burn with seraphic love, as Heaven
resounds with our songs of salvation!
We shall eternally, without interruption,
feast our eyes upon HIM--
and be ever viewing HIS glorious
perfections!
In HIM shall we see everything desirable--
and nothing but what is desirable. We shall
look into the heart of GOD, and there see
the love HE bore to us from all eternity,
and the love and goodness HE will bear
to us forevermore.
We who are heirs of GOD, the great heritage--
shall then enter into a full possession of our
inheritance; and the LORD will open HIS
treasures of goodness unto us, that our
enjoyment may be full. We shall not
be stinted to any measure--
but the enjoyment shall go as far
as our enlarged capacities can reach.
We shall be fully satisfied, and perfectly
blessed in the full enjoyment of divine goodness.
Our love to the LORD, being purified from
the dross of self-love, shall be most pure.
We will be all love, when we come
to the full enjoyment of GOD in Heaven,
by intuitive and experimental knowledge
of HIM, by full participation
in the divine goodness.
The enjoyment of GOD and the LAMB
will be ever fresh and new to us, through
the ages of eternity; for we shall drink
of living fountains of waters, where new
waters are continually springing up
in abundance. Our joy shall be pure
and unmixed, without any dregs of sorrow;
solid and everlasting, without interruption.
We shall swim forever in an ocean of joy--
where we shall see nothing but joy
wherever we turn our eyes.
The presence and enjoyment of GOD
and the LAMB will satisfy us with pleasures
for evermore; and will afford us everlasting delight!
"YOU will fill me with joy in YOUR presence,
with eternal pleasures at YOUR right hand!"
Psalm 16:11
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GraceGems has published William Nicholson's superb article,
"The Will of Christ!" on John 17:24:
to be with ME where I am, and to see MY glory,
the glory YOU have given ME because YOU
loved ME before the creation of the world!"
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