Adoration: Anticipation of Glory

Anticipation of Glory

O blessed Saviour, we would ask for all believers to realize their union with Christ Jesus. Oh that our hearts might track Thee upward to Thy throne ascending high. Let us rise with Thee by a joyous confidence, for we shall be there ere long, and let us now survey Thy power, Thy state, the glories of Thy kingly condition, where Thou sittest at the right-hand of God for ever, having finished the propitiation for the sins of men. We worship Thee, Immanuel—"God with us." We now adore Thee, Jesus, before the Father's throne. There is no coming to the Father, but by Thee; but in tracking Thee we have come to the Father, and to the place where the "many mansions" are. Our spirit now anticipates her time of rejoicing when, delivered from the house of clay and from the nature of sin, we shall be for ever with the Lord. Yet further, do we anticipate yet more that last Day, when He shall come according to His promise. O Saviour, Thou shalt come, as surely as Thou hast come once Thou shalt come again, and then our bodies, now our burden, shall become our joy, for Thou wilt call them, "from beds of dust and silent clay." Thou wilt renew them, Thou wilt revive them, and then wilt Thou receive us unto Thyself to be with Thee, world without end. Lay to the hearts of Thy children, O Holy Spirit, these priceless consolations. Help us to get out of the present, if it be surrounded with pain or loss or depression, and may we live in that eternal future which is so full of excessive glory that we may well take from it now, and enjoy it without fear of diminishing it when we come to our heritage. The Lord help us to be risen with Christ and then to set our affections upon things above, where Christ sitteth at the right-hand of God. Oh for grace to do this. And may this day, therefore, be as one of the days of heaven upon earth. May our life of to-day be a fragment of the life we lead in Christ, the eternal life that we shall spend with Him in the glory.

O dear Saviour, let every believer come very close to Thee now. May this be a moment in which we shall feel that if there has been distance, and wondering and doubt, there shall not be any of these any longer. We have come close to our Lord; we will lean upon the Beloved; we will abide in Him even as He bids us abide, and in the biding gives us the promise, speaks the word of command, "Abide in Me and I in you." Amen.