Waiting on God for the Coming of His Son* ^ • By ANDREW MURRAY, W E L L IN G T O N , SO U T H A FR ICA ' "Be ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord.’’ :Luke 12:36. “ Until the appearing of ’our Lord Jesus Christ,' which; in His own time, He shall shezo, who is the Messed and only Potentate; the King of kings-, and Lord of lords’’-^!'Timothy 6:44, 15, ( R . V) . v * > ' y "Turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and tozwait for His Son from heaven .”—-1 Thessalonians 1:9, 10, W AITING on God in heaven, and waiting for His Son from heaven, these two God hath
coma; and there is such scope in the study of coming .events. for imagina tion and reason and human ingenuity, that nothing but deeply humble smit ing on ,God cán save us, from ■‘mistakr ing the interest and pleasure of intel lectual study for the true love of Hiv; and His appearing. All ye that say ye wait for Christ’s coming, be gurç that ye wait on God now. 'All ye who seek-to wait on God now to reveal His- Boh'in you, see to it that ye do so a s men waiting for thé revelation of His Son from heaven. The hope of that: glôrious appèaring will strengthen'you in waiting upon,God forrwhat He :is to do in you now: the samé omnipo tent love that is to reveal the glory is !working in you even now to fit you for it. “The blessed hope and the appear ing of the glory of our great God arid Saviour Jésus Christ,” 'is one of the great bonds of uriion giveribtd'God’s Church': throughout 'the ages. -“He shall come to be glorified in His.saints, and’to be marvelled at in all them that believe.” Then we shall all meet, and the unity of the body of Christ be seen in. all-its divine glory. It wilbhe the meeting-place ând the, triumph of di vine lové. Jesus receiving His Own arid presenting them to the Father. H'is ozim meeting Him and worshiping in speechless love that- blessed face. His ozjpn meeting each , óther in the eestaiy of God’s ozvn love, I,et its wait, long for, and love the’appearing
joined together, and no man may put them:asunder. The waiting of God for .His presence and power, in daily : life will be the only true preparation for waiting for Christ in: humility and, true holiness. Tire waiting for Christ coming from heaven to take us to heaven will give the waiting on God its true tone of hopefulness and joy. The Father who in His own time will reveal His Son from heaven, is the God!who, as we wait on Him, prepares us for the revelation of His Son. The present life and the ' coming' glory are inseparably connected in God and in us.- There is sometimes a dan ger of separating them. Tt is alzvdys easier to be ' engaged zvith the religion pf the past or the future than to-be' ’faithful in the religion of toddy. ‘ As ’ we look to what God has ddne in the past, or will do in time to corrfe, the personal claim of present duty and present submission to His working may be escaped. Waiting on God must ever lead to waiting for Christ .as the glorious consummation of His work; and waiting for .¡.Christs must ever remind us of.the duty of waiting upon God as our only proof ,t|iat the waiting; for Christ, is jn spirit .and in. truth. , There is-.such a danger oh qur. being occupied with the-things. that ope. coming more than with Him zi'hq. is to ♦From “W aitin g on God.” " SJTfr S 'S & a * €
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