Privilege Of Open Communion With God

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for March 1
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Privilege Of Open Communion With God

I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the
temple of it. Rev. 21:22

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.
We may address Him by the endearing name, "Our Father," which is a sign
of our affection for Him and a pledge of His tender regard and
relationship to us. And the Son of God, beholding the heirs of grace,
"is not ashamed to call them brethren." They have even a more sacred
relationship to God than have the angels who have never fallen.
All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation
through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which
have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless
ocean when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God.
Heaven is a ceaseless approaching to God through Christ. The longer we
are in the heaven of bliss, the more and still more of glory will be
opened to us; and the more we know of God, the more intense will be our
happiness.
And what is the happiness of heaven but to see God? What greater joy
could come to the sinner saved by the grace of Christ than to look upon
the face of God and know Him as Father?
How much comfort it gives to behold Him here by the eye of faith, that
we may by beholding be made like Him, but what will it be to behold Him
as He is, without one dimming veil between?

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, pp. 62, 63.