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Devotional: November 24th

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OUR BROTHER IN HEAVEN

In My Father’s House are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. - John 14:2

Let us thankfully think how, in the profound language of Scripture, the "Forerunner is for us entered"; how, in some mysterious manner, of which we can but dimly conceive, that entrance of Christ in His complete humanity into the highest heavens is the preparation of a place for us. As if, without His presence there, there were no entrance for human nature within that state, and no power in a human foot to tread upon the crystal pavements of the Celestial City, but as if, where He is, there the path is permeable, and the place native to all that love and trust Him.

Stand, therefore, with these disciples, as they gazed upon their ascended Saviour, and looking upwards as the cloud receives Him out of our sight, our faith follows Him, still our Brother, still clothed with humanity, still wearing a bodily frame; and we say, as we lose Him from our vision, " What is man?" Capable of being lifted to the most intimate participation in the glories of Divinity, and though he be poor and weak and sinful here, yet capable of union and assimilation with the Majesty that is on high. For what Christ’s body is, the bodies of them that love and serve Him shall surely be, and He, the Forerunner, is entered there for us, that we, too, in our turn, may pass into the light, and walk in the full blaze of the Divine glory, as of old the children in the furnace, unconsumed, because companioned by " One like unto the Son of man."

The exalted Christ, sitting at the right hand of God, is the pattern of what is possible for humanity, and the prophecy and pledge of what will be actual for all that love Him and bear the image of Him upon earth that they may be conformed to the image of His glory, and be with Him where He is. What firmness, what reality, what solidity this thought of the bodily exalted Christ gives to the else dim and vague conceptions of a heaven beyond the stars and beyond our present experience! I believe that no doctrine of a future life has strength and substance enough to survive the agonies of our hearts when we part from our dear ones, the fears of our spirits when we look into the unknown, inane future for ourselves, except only this which says Heaven is Christ and Christ is Heaven, and points to Him and says, "Where He is, there, and that, also shall His servants be."

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