Dear friends, now we are children of God

Dear friends, now we are children of God

"Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him —for we shall see Him as He is!" 1 John 3:2

"We shall see Him!"—that is, our adorable Redeemer. Now our apprehensions of Him are very feeble and indistinct. Now His personal glories and all His spiritual excellencies are only dimly seen by us, as in a dim mirror. In our present condition, we are incapable of receiving a full manifestation of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But when our spirits are liberated from the earthly house of our tabernacle, and when our faculties are cleared of all carnal obstructions—then "we shall see Him as He is!"

We shall see the infinitely gracious One, who gave Himself for our sins, who bled and died on the cross for our salvation.

We shall see Him, who is our life, and by whose grace we are daily living.

We shall see Him "as He is"—not as He was in the days of His humiliation; not as He was known in the flesh by His disciples—but in all the glory in which He sits on His mediatorial throne!

And, as His glories fix our adoring gaze, we shall in our measure be conformed to His image. May we daily live under the influence of this blessed hope, and realize its sanctifying power.

"What we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him—for we shall see Him as He is!"

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