God's Final Promise

II Cor.1:20 - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

In the end and throughout all eternity, all truth will be recognized as having its source and destination in the Crucified and Risen Christ.

Imagine standing in the mysterious expanse of eternity and beholding the divine figure of the exalted Christ. The glory that surrounds and emanates from Him is immeasurable, and in a powerful mystery His glory is being revealed in His worshipers as well. One particle of God’s glory can illuminate the universe, but here we stand in the throne room of the personification of that glory and engulfed in His majesty. Go ahead and treat this like some fairy tale, but one day it will be the only reality left standing.

I realize the concept of eternity has become passé and must bow to the titillations of the “now”, but do not be deceived. The revelation of eternity is rapidly approaching and very soon every blood bought believer will be changed in a moment into the very likeness of the Son of God. No one should set a date, but everyone should be living with an air of expectancy!

But we should be, we MUST be, hungering and thirsting to see and be with our Beloved Savior. This world should be becoming less and less appealing to us, and we should be about our Father’s business with a redemptive love for the lost but a heart that is longing to be with Christ. The church should not be rearranging the doctrinal furniture; we should be rearranging our cold and indifferent hearts to surrender to the truth already revealed in Scripture.

In a real sense, when false teachers dismantle New Testament truth and present something new, they are attacking the Lord Jesus Himself who is the Author and Protector of all truth. Please do not even give any attention to such men and women and such modern movements, they are diabolical strategies that entice the flesh but are as deadly as the Garden’s serpent. Keep your hearts fixed upon the Lord Jesus and instead of changing Him let Jesus change you.

God keeps His promises, and the promise of the Spirit in this present age of grace has sealed believers with the everlasting promise of spending forever with Him. Oh my brethren, bask in that for a while. Rest in Him and let the warmth of His presence and the strength of His grace overshadow your entire being. You belong to Him and nothing can rip you from His redemptive grasp. The scientist, the philosopher, and the entire fallen race search for the meaning of existence, but we have found the Christ.

Not of our own devices and inflated intellect, but by God’s grace and through God’s Spirit have we been brought to the foot of the cross. The foot of the cross, you ask? Oh yes, and therein lies the highest stumbling block. It is the eternal scandal that an object of scorn and death is the very fountain of everlasting life. Such a narrative and such a truth is absolutely scandalous. Our elevated view of ourselves demands some ascending steps of spiritual knowledge that can be gained through meditation and self deprivation and of course, mental ascent. We must have a religious caste system that champions the intellect of man and pays homage to those who deem themselves as “holy men”. And men who sit cross legged, or sit on bar stools, or even stand behind pulpits and pontificate some philosophical nonsense are held in high esteem and listened to by pitiful souls who believe they are stimulating their minds and spirits, but in reality they are being drawn into spiritual shipwreck.

But all that is rubbish. Our Redeemer is as simple as He is unfathomable. And that is the very paradox which confounds the wise. God cannot be known outside of Christ for one very basic reason - Jesus IS God. “Learn of Me” was His admonition to all of us. The church by and large has fallen out of love with Jesus, the real Jesus, and has constructed many counterfeit versions of Jesus which are not Jesus at all. And one day Jesus will come as Lord and reveal Himself in ways inconceivable to the natural mind. We will have to be changed in order to even receive this revelation of the Risen and Reigning Christ!

I grow weary of this present world, and I grow exceedingly weary of the growing apostasy that seeks to strip Christ of the glory He not only earned at Calvary, but the glory that was always His. But let there be no mistake, those who are sealed with His Spirit are on a journey that will culminate with His embrace. But those who are not sealed are on a collision course with this same Redeemer who will ultimately be their Judge. We have fallen upon the Rock, but the Rock will fall upon those who die in their sins.

We have had enough of this world, and it has nothing that can really excite us anymore. It’s all so much of the same. There is only one thing that must hold our desire. We must see Him. Until then we occupy and share Him with others, and worship Him as we prepare for that Great Feast of the Lamb!

Even so, come Lord Jesus.