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178 The Tabernacle once submit our feet to Him, and have them cleansed. fully cleansed! Thank God! At the altar which is His cross the penalty of sin has been forever paid! And at the laver of cleansing, through His Holy Word, the Spirir of God gives us power over sin. The Lord Jesus and the Spirit of God are interceding for us at the Father's right hand! "We Shall Be Like Him!" As long as we are pilgrims, journeying from this world to heaven and home, we shall need the !aver of cleansing, as it were; but in that eternal city there will be no need for cleansing from defilement; for nothing that defileth shall enter there. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what wc shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, wc shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (I John 3 :2). "For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself" (Phil. 3:20, 21). As someone has beautifully expressed it: "The streets of gold will reflect the purity of the redeemed. A sea of glass will show forth the unsullied .beauty of the sons of God, who shall have been glorified, transformed into the very image of the Lord!" There shall be no more curse no more sin, no more tears, no more night. In the presence of our crucified and risen Lord we shall worship Him throughout all the endless ages! Until that coming day, we stand in need of Christ, our Cleanser, in a very real sense. As we wait for His appear-
The Tabernacle ing; as we look beyond the blood and tears of a ":ar-ton~, war-weary world; let us give our whole selves IDtO His hands for the daily, constant cleansing that can make us ever-increasingly like Him, more and more "meet for the Master's use." This we shall do only as our hearts can sing a song of William Cowper, written many years ago. This great English poet knew the pangs of sor~ow. He knew the need for the daily ministry of his omnipo- tent Lord. An orphan at an early age, he fell in love with his cousin, whom he could never marry. Failing in his chosen profession of law, he knew even greater sorrow in temporary fits of insanity. Upon one occasion, in such an illness, dear friends prevented him from taking his own life. Then, upon regaining his mental balance, he wrote those majestic lines, "God 1noves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants His foot steps in the sea, And rides upon the stonn." It was this godly man who also wrote, "There is a foimtain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains." But his hymn that shows his realization of constant need for cleansing by Christ, through the Word of God applied by the Holy Spirit, is this one; may we make it the song of our hearts-till Jesus comes!
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