. All happiness, all satisfaction
is comprehended in this. Maria Sandberg, Glimpses of Heaven,
1880. They will see His face. Revelation
22, 4. What a promise is this! We shall see the face of God
and the Lamb who was slain for us. We shall see the face of
God in Christ. We shall see Jesus, whom having
not seen, we love. All happiness, all satisfaction
is comprehended in this. Long have we believed that we
have not seen, Long have we desired the glorious vision of Him Whom
our souls love, then shall it be realized We shall see His
face. If it has been our great delight
here below to hear of His loveliness and beauty, and to have a spiritual
sense of His presence, what will it be to see the substance of
our hope? Yet this happiness will most
assuredly be ours. we shall see His face. While we meditate on this hope,
may it exercise its transforming power upon us, and conform us
now to the image of Christ. But we all, with unveiled face,
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image, from glory to glory. 2 Corinthians
3.18 If we hope hereafter to see His face, we must now be
in some measure changed into the same image, the same holy
character must be formed in us which was in Christ Jesus. He has set us an example that
we should walk in His steps. in his steps of humility, of
self-denial, of devotion, of love to God and men, and of zeal
for the glory of God. Are we treading in these steps?
Do we bear his image now? In one sense all, both just and
unjust, will see the face of Christ. but if we would see His
face with joy, and continue in the everlasting vision of it,
we must bear the image of Christ now. Let us come down from the
mount of heavenly meditation, retaining this truth in our memories,
and resolved henceforth to speak more earnestly the grace and
help of the Holy Spirit, by whom we shall be conformed to the
likeness of our Saviour. Jesus, my Saviour, let me be
More perfectly conformed to Thee, Implant each grace, each sin
dethroned, And form my temper like Thy own.