Looking for the Lord’s Appearing
Unto them that look for him, says Paul, shall the Saviour appear the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. ix, 28. Paul here makes the assertion that unto a certain class the Lord will appear; but does he mean to say that he will not appear unto any others? By no means: he will appear to all. But here is the point: it is to only one class that he appears unto salvation; all others will be destroyed with a miserable destruction from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power. Reader are you looking for your Lord? or are you among those who do not love to think of his appearing and kingdom? Whether you are looking for him or not, he will surely appear; but it is only to those who look for him that he brings salvation; and where would you rather be in that day? with those who are exclaiming with glad hearts, Lo this is our God, we have waited for him—looked for him—and he will save us? or with those who will cry to the rocks and the mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne? There will be but these two classes then; there are in one sense but two classes now; those who love and those who do not love his appearing. Let me be among those who love and look for their Lord here; let me be among those to whom he will appear unto salvation! Salvation! O the precious boon, the priceless privilege!