Come, Lord Jesus!

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 13, 1906

“Come, Lord Jesus!”

¶ “O Thou who hast taken on Thyself humanity, that Thou mightest bear our griefs, and carry our sorrows, and atone for all our sins,— Thou whose loud expiring cry upon the cross rung through the universe the triumphant truth that our redemption is accomplished, that its battle has been fought, its victory won; the foe vanquished; sin canceled, made an end of, and known no more,— Thou whose tender sympathies and whose immortal love surpassing knowledge are with us still, whose sacred presence unseen, but ever felt, guards and guides Thy redeemed in all their pilgrim way,— Thou who art coming in the brightness of Thy majesty, in the sweetness of Thy grace, in the fulness of Thy strength, to finish our redemption, and complete Thy triumph over all our fears and all our foes,— Thou whose unchangeable purpose it is to surround Thyself with the spotless beauty of a new creation, whose voice shall yet proclaim the renovation of a ruined world, the completion of the conquest of our evil by Thy good, the consummation of the moral movement of all these ages carried forward by Thine unwearied Spirit in the souls of men, the perfecting of Thy redeemed in the holy image of their Redeemer; whose faithful hand shall yet finish the true temple of Jehovah, the living temple of His fulness, and habitation of His glory forever and forever,— Thou whose latest promise and last recorded utterance is, ‘Surely I come quickly,’ and whose coming is now near at hand— Life of our life — Light of our light — God manifested — God with us — our everlasting all — we long, we watch, we wait to welcome Thee; come as Thou hast said— come soon. ‘Even so, come, Lord Jesus!’”