Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
When you are perplexed and tempted to discouragement, think about what the Son of God accomplished for you by His great sacrifice. Then remember that He wants you to "comprehend" it--to let your mind grasp the reality of what He accomplished. Paul got on his knees and prayed for us that "the whole family in heaven and earth" might be united, "rooted and grounded in love [agape], ... able to comprehend with all saints" those grand dimensions of His personal love "which passeth knowledge" (Eph 3:15-19).
What does it mean? We don't want to remain like little children in immature thinking, slow comprehension, for that disappoints our Lord. Children are wonderful, but no parent wants his child to remain a child forever. Christ is disappointed when we do not grow up "unto the measure of the stature of [His] fulness" (4:13); and His disappointment becomes serious. Yes, He loves us, but if, generation after generation, we remain content to be childish and immature, His disappointment becomes intense. Even if the church becomes so numerous that there are billions of childish, weak members who do not grow up to appreciate what His sacrifice means, His disappointment is not lessened.
What it means is that Christ is lonely, even when surrounded by untold myriads of loyal angels in heaven. They are His faithful servants, waiting to do everything He asks them to do. But don't forget that the Son of God became the Son of man; He emptied Himself of the glories of His divinity to become one of us, to share our humanity, to become one of us, our Elder Brother, forever.
It was "we," the human race, who rejected and crucified Him, and then we exiled Him to leave earth and return to where He came from--heaven. But He is lonely there; He wants to be with those who are the purchase of His sacrifice. No, those of His believers who have died during these 6000 years are not alive with Him in heaven--they are "asleep in Jesus." He longs to awaken them in the first resurrection of the sleeping saints and to come to earth the second time to welcome the "alive" members of His church. It's time for us to begin to think about what He wants, to understand the longings of His heart, and to give Him His reward!
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 13, 2002.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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