At Home in the New Jerusalem

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for December 14
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At Home in the New Jerusalem

Be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Isa. 65:18. 


There is the New Jerusalem, the metropolis of the glorified new earth,
"a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the
hand of thy God." "Her light was like unto a stone most precious, even
like a jasper stone, clear as crystal." "The nations of them which are
saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring
their glory and honour into it." Saith the Lord: "I will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and joy in my people." . . . 

In the City of God "there shall be no night." None will need or desire
repose. There will be no weariness in doing the will of God and offering
praise to His name. We shall ever feel the freshness of the morning and
shall ever be far from its close. "And they need no candle, neither
light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light." The light of the
sun will be superseded by a radiance which is not painfully dazzling,
yet which immeasurably surpasses the brightness of our noontide. The
glory of God and the Lamb floods the Holy City with unfading light. The
redeemed walk in the sunless glory of perpetual day. 

"I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the
temple of it." The people of God are privileged to hold open communion
with the Father and the Son. "Now we see through a glass, darkly." We
behold the image of God reflected, as in a mirror, in the works of
nature and in His dealings with men; but then we shall see Him face to
face, without a dimming veil between. We shall stand in His presence and
behold the glory of His countenance. 

There we shall know even as also we are known. There the loves and
sympathies that God has planted in the soul will find truest and
sweetest exercise. The pure communion with holy beings, the harmonious
social life with the blessed angels and with the faithful ones of all
ages, the sacred fellowship that binds together "the whole family in
heaven and earth"--all are among the experiences of the hereafter.

>From Maranatha - Page 356