45. The Glory of Fellowship

The Glory of Fellowship

Look at Revelation 19:9 : “And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.” There is the seventh gleam of glory, it is the glory of fellowship. There we have the record of the eternal fellowship, the unending marriage banquet of the Lamb at which the redeemed will one day sit. And what have you there but the picture of what personal fellowship with Christ can be.

1 Corinthians 1:9says, “Called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” That is the normal experience of the child of God. That is not something for people especially gifted, especially holy. That is the privilege of every child of God. We are redeemed for that. The cross has made that possible. The cross calls us into that fellowship. The cross makes us fit for it, and just as the purpose of the cross is effected in our daily lives can that fellowship grow full and real and useful. Do not let us forget that fellowship with Christ is not a selfish thing. Fellowship with Christ means getting into sympathy with Christ in His outlook upon the world. Are we there? “Love so amazing, so divine”—what are we going to say? I do not like the word “demands.” I like the word “shall have.” It is true that it demands all, but can we say “shall have”?—“shall have my life, my soul, my all!” Do not let us seek or speak of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, unless He who died that death for our redemption is seeing in and through us to the uttermost ends of the earth the travail of His soul. That is fellowship with Christ.