Oh, and apologies for the overuse of *asterisks* and the CAPS in my post above....I’m Italian, I even type emotionally. ;)
You think YOU’RE emotional when you type; you should’a seen the post I DIDN’T post. I got well into an extended discourse, and heard that Voice... You know, The Voice that has great mass but little noise; like the sound of immense power at a distance; like the subsonic thunder of being inside of a dam and hearing/feeling the water roaring through the penstocks. THAT quality, but wrapped up in a gentle serenity as of a quiet, meadow-rimmed pond.
So, heeding the Wisdom of The One Who spoke, I scrapped it all.
And as for our future glory...
OH, my heart’s supreme desire — sought after even with tears — to be there; to have laid aside this corruptible mortality, and be found — at long last — in the visible Presence of Him that is my very life and my salvation.
Oh, my friend, I can almost TASTE it.
And not the least of the many waiting glories but to see Truth fully revealed; to know at once where I had thought rightly, and where I had believed amiss; to be done with the damnable “if”, and secure in the eternal “since”.
OH, and to SEE — to really SEE — that radiant Bride, revealed in a degree beyond our present ability to grasp. To see ALL Whom God has truly called “saints” from all ages, kingdoms, tribes, and tongues, and to be FINALLY, FULLY, and PREFECTLY ONE IN CHRIST JESUS; the utter fulfillment of Jesus’ own fervent prayer from John 17.
I have one great dread, and it is this: that the earthly striving between so many who are in Truth, like ourselves, brothers in Christ, may be the damnation of many. I tremble and quake that God may lay to my charge the damnation of even one, owing to some callous condemnation I might have levied against another of His saints.
I do not know why we two, along with many millions of others, walk in slightly varied revelation, but we do. It must be a Divine mystery of epic proportions; unfathomable from the perspective of any earthly mind. I can hardly wait to see the complete revelation from Heaven’s side. But, for now, even as we acknowledge our differences, and register the implications, let us never lose sight of what we both hold so dearly in common, and so let us bless and not curse, granting that we each have set our trust in Christ, for He alone is our hope, and our salvation.
By Him let us be wholly Pwn3d.