January 30
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb, is come,
and his wife hath made herself ready” (Rev. 19:7).
In Revelation 21 the Church is compared to a bride adorned for her husband — a bride
prepared to receive in fullness the love and joy and wisdom of God and the very heart-secrets
of her Lord. When you go to heaven the Lord will share everything with you without any
compulsion, and yet you will be glad to be in subjection to Him throughout eternity.
Now do you understand why your Lord wants you to be His? Now do you understand why He
is calling you, loving you and disciplining you? It is even that He may rejoice over you with
heavenly rejoicing, and that you may have intimacy with God the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost that the angels can never know. It is that you may enjoy the sweetest love through
all eternity — that you may know the great joy of being loved with a heavenly, everlasting
love.
All the heavenly powers are waiting to see God’s glory and beauty in you and God wants you
to be the object of His delight and affection. Will you not allow Him to bring you into that
enjoyment?
God seeks dwelling place | January 31
January 31
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Psalm 16:11).
God will not rest till He has received from us that for which He has been waiting from eternity.
The mighty and Holy God offers to you His own righteousness in which there is no flaw or
fault. God wants to present us spotless in His own presence before the angels of heaven. The
righteousness of God in you is of such a nature that if you possess it, even the angels cannot
point a finger at you in condemnation. Have you received such a righteousness or are you
still trusting in something else?
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts
thereof” (Rom. 13:14). “And thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the
Lord shall name” (Isa. 62:2).
God seeks a dwelling place in us – a rest such as He cannot get even from Heaven without
us. He is gathering out of this earth a church, a company of chosen people to give Him
pleasure and rest and satisfaction. It is this joy which is your strength, and it is this joy and
great love which we offer you in the in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.