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And can I call my home. My Father’s house on high? The rest of God, my rest to come My place of liberty? Yes! in that light unstained. My stainless soul shall live; My heart’s deep longings more than gained, When God His rest shall give!Heart devotedness
to Christ and obedience will only be thought of value in the past when
we come to meet Him. “I will come
again, and receive you unto myself.” This is the language of affection.
He does not say, I will send for you. No, that would not satisfy the
heart—“I will come.” He would not be content without having them where
He is, and without coming to fetch them. “The glory of God
doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” But if I see the
Lamb in the midst of the throne, Ah! I say, now I am indeed at home,
that is the sight that dazzles every other, and that is the sight which
is for me. The shape (the
Lord’s coming) has taken in my mind is, how it connects itself with
every thought and relationship of the Christian in scripture. I never
treat of it now as a point of knowledge. That way is upward still— Where life and glory are; My
rest’s above: Is the thought of
the Lord’s coming your daily delight? Does it influence you in the ten
thousand details of your everyday life? Or are you so walking hand in
hand with the world that the very thought of His coming fills you with
shame? He is gone to
prepare a place for us. … We shall be there … ever with Him: no
interruption, no decay of joy, but rather ever increasing delight, as
there always is when the object is worthy of the heart, and here it is
infinite. John 14:23. The
Father and the Son come and make their abode with us. How little we
have this manifestation! The Lord’s heart is on them, they cannot be
happy here; but they are to look for the blessedness of being with the
Father, and “we will come and abide in you, till you can come and abide
with us.” He will take the
place of a servant even in the glory. “He shall gird himself … and will
come forth and serve them.” His love is His glory; the nearer we are to
Him, the more we shall adore Him. There is nothing
more practically important for everyday work and service than our
waiting for God’s Son from heaven. … The moment I am waiting for God’s
Son from heaven, my life is but the dealings of God with me with an
object, and the object is that it should be to praise and honour and
glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. The saints were
converted to wait for God’s Son from heaven, and when they lost that,
all the mischief came in. … If you were constantly waiting for Him,
would it not change you? … Would people be heaping up money or
treasures when they know He is coming? You cannot float
down the stream of the world that is going to the ocean of judgment.
You are to be looking for Him. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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