Greetings, I am Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div.
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.!” 2 Peter 3:8
What delights are in store for me in Heaven — unutterable, inconceivable, surpassingly sublime!
With the Lord, one day is like a thousand years. In His society, the shortest period of time will appear the longest — so much will be crowded into it, and it will bring me such marvellous treasures and joys. In that better country, a single day will be fraught with satisfaction to my senses, my intellect, my memory, my imagination, my conscience, my will, my heart — satisfaction which I could not find in a whole millennium here on earth. For I shall be . . .
- with my Lord,
- admitted to His closest intimacy,
- transfigured into His beauty,
- participating in His dominion.
I will not only gaze on His glory — but on my King and Saviour Himself!
Nor need I grieve that these celestial pleasures seem remote and distant from me. For a thousand years are with the Lord as one day. Let my waiting time be briefer or more protracted, let the hour of the reception into my eternal inheritance be far away in my reckoning — God sees the consummation near at hand. The decades and centuries of this world’s chronology, are as nothing to Him who is from everlasting to everlasting. It is as if, in the morning, I should look forward to the evening — thus short-lived appears the space which intervenes before I see Him — and am with Him where He is. The thought should curb my impatience — and should intensify my hope. “Yet a little while — yet a very little way” — and I shall enter my eternal home with God!
Thus, here and hereafter — all is well.
“In Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore!” Psalm 16:11
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