Love for Christ’s Coming

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 11, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 27.

Love for Christ’s Coming

If we love Jesus Christ now, we will love His coming. Think of a child saying, "I love my father," who might be absent, and yet never anxious to have that father return, never inquiring as to when he was coming, and, in fact, becoming offended or afraid if his coming is said to be imminent! Would we not say that such love consisted only in words? that there was no heart in it? And yet this is about the way that many professed children of Christ talk. "O, yes, I love Him," we hear on every hand; but if you love Him, you will desire to see Him. Love longs for the personal presence of the one loved. The two can not be separated. If we truly love Jesus Christ we can truly pray, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus," in response to His "Surely, I come quickly."