Almost Home!

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for April 30
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Almost Home!

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive
you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:3.

More than eighteen hundred years have passed since the Saviour gave the
promise of His coming. Throughout the centuries His words have filled
with courage the hearts of His faithful ones. The promise has not yet
been fulfilled;...but none the less sure is the word that has been
spoken.

Christ will come in His own glory, in the glory of His Father, and in
the glory of the holy angels. Ten thousand times ten thousand and
thousands of thousands of angels, the beautiful, triumphant sons of God,
possessing surpassing loveliness and glory, will escort Him on His way.
In the place of a crown of thorns, He will wear a crown of glory-a crown
within a crown. In the place of that old purple robe, He will be clothed
in a garment of whitest white, "so as no fuller on earth can white"
(Mark 9:3) it. And on His vesture and on His thigh a name will be
written, "King of kings, and Lord of lords." Rev. 19:16....

To His faithful followers Christ has been a daily companion, a familiar
friend. They have lived in close, constant communion with God. Upon them
the glory of the Lord has risen. In them the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ has been reflected. Now
they rejoice in the undimmed rays of the brightness and glory of the
King in His majesty. They are prepared for the communion of heaven, for
they have heaven in their hearts.

With uplifted heads, with the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness
shining upon them, with rejoicing that their redemption draweth nigh,
they go forth to meet the Bridegroom, saying, "Lo, this is our God; we
have waited for him, and he will save us."

The time of tarrying is almost ended. The pilgrims and strangers who
have so long been seeking a better country are almost home. I feel as if
I must cry aloud, Homeward bound! . . . "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that
ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in
peace, without spot, and blameless." 2 Peter 3:14.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 115.