Suppose that your husband, whom you dearly love, is killed suddenly on his way home from work. What are you going to say about it? In my medical practice, I have seen so many people whom I thought loved God until He touched something in their lives. There was a woman in Kansas City whose husband passed away totally unexpected. He kissed her goodbye at the front door and be fore he ever reached his car he fell dead of a heart attack. I had thought that the woman was a friend of God. Yet, do you know what happened? She became God’s enemy. You should have heard her terrible remarks. She would have nothing to do with God. She said she never wanted to see His face. True faith brings joy and sweet trust in God even though there is a coffin in the parlor. To see His face is the combination of everything in the world. It means the trials of earth are gone, the rough road is passed, the sorrows and dreams are ended. We are presented to God without a spot or blemish. We are ushered into God’s wonderful pres ence as perfect creatures, trans formed by His matchless grace. Do you carry around a picture of a loved one? It is the face that makes that picture precious to us. So, in the case of our Saviour, whom having not seen, we love, our desire is to see His blessed countenance. As a child of God, you will see the Father’s face. When we visited Egypt we saw the mummy of the Pharaoh who was the supposed monarch who chased Moses. We looked at his face which had been unwrapped so that people could see him. I thought, “Moses saw that face and trembled. But perhaps he didn’t know God was going to deliver him. Who would want a face like this mummy’s?” The end of our life’s journeying will soon cease. For those who have placed faith and trust in Christ, this five-word message will be fulfilled in a blessed manner, “They shall see His face.” Will this be true in your life? Are you ready to meet the Lord? 4
something which God cannot endure. If you put a $20 bill in the offering plate, do you find satisfaction if some one takes notice of it? We give anony mously but hope someone finds out we did it. But say, when we see His face we will have all that terrible human pride taken away. Our God has promised, “Your sins and your iniqui ties will I remember no more.” Every sin is blotted out by the Lord Jesus Christ through His precious blood. We wouldn’t expect to go to see a king or queen and wear our old clothes, and not bother to bathe or IF I HAD KNOWN If I had known What troubles you were bearing What griefs were in the silence of your face, I would have been more gentle and more caring And tried to give you gladness for a space. I would have brought more warmth into the place— If I had but known. If I had but known What thoughts despairing drew you— Why do we never understand? I would have bent a little friendship to you, And slipped my hand within your lonely hand, And made your stay more pleasant in the land. If I had known. clean up. Since the Lord wants us to see His face He has provided us spe cial dress to wear in His robes of righteousness. This is just one of the 33 things the Lord gives us when we are saved. In addition, before we can see His face all enmity has to be removed. What king or queen of earth would want you around if you were their enemy? The Lord Jesus died for us to put away the enmity. Paul re minds the Ephesians, as well as us, of this fact. Suppose that just after you get the house paid for, it burns down and you don’t have any insurance.
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