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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 1, 1867.

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 16

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FOREVER WITH THE LORD.

By L. E. Miller

ENRAPTURING thought! Can it be that such poor, unworthy beings as we are, shall ever be permitted to dwell with Jesus, the Lord of life and glory? Yes; it is possible. He died to redeem us from all iniquity, and present us faultless before the Father, and shall we not avail ourselves of the offers of salvation, so full and free to all that will come? We may be purified and made like our blessed Jesus. Oh, who would not strive with all their powers of mind to imitate their divine Lord, who was meek and lowly and went about doing good? If we submit to all the requirements of God and endure every test, we shall soon, yes, very soon be forever with the Lord. Through the ceaseless ages of eternity we shall enjoy immortal life in his glorious kingdom.
“When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise, Than when we first begun.”
Oh, how bright the vision; forever with the Lord. Then we shall be like Jesus the King of kings, and Lord of lords. We shall be adorned with his beauty and loveliness; and he is the one altogether lovely, fairer than the sons of men. Oh, glorious prospect! Blessed hope! Shall we who profess to be looking for the soon coming of our adorable Redeemer, be clothed in white robes, in shining raiment? Shall we be rich in faith, and have the tried gold and the eyesalve? Oh, who shall abide the day of his coming? Oh, my soul, be it thy one great aim and object to make thy calling and election sure, to be prepared for that solemn event, when the earth shall melt with fervent heat, and the heavens be rolled together as a scroll, and be among that happy, holy throng, who shall look up with confidence and say, “This is our God, we have waited for him and he will save us.”
Will not this be enough, though we pass through great tribulation here? Oh, to inhabit those bright mansions which Jesus has gone to prepare, and be forever with the Lord where there is fullness of joy forevermore. My heart is filled with gladness as I contemplate the glorious consummation of the Christian’s hope, forever with the Lord.
Sinner, where will you hide in that dreadful day, when the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate and destroy the sinners thereof out of it, you who slighted all the offers of salvation, and resisted the last call of mercy? Then will he laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh. In vain will you call for rocks and mountains to fall upon you to hide you from his face. Then will you see all the faithful, waiting ones who have made the Lord their refuge, with their faces shining far brighter than Moses’ just from the mount, crying, Alleluiah, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, and be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and so be forever with the Lord.
L. E. MILLER.
St. Charles, Mich.