The more that we consider it the more the question burns.
We try and work it all out; His height and weight and size.
We think about His hairstyle and the colour of His eyes.
Will He be in a pinstripe suit or in a flowing gown?
And where is it we’ll meet Him and will it be in town?
These thoughts are academic. I don’t think we will care.
We’ll all be so excited that we are with Him there.
Some people have suggested there’ll be a massive crowd.
So big we’ll have to meet Him as He comes through the clouds.
This seems the biggest problem. Our cities are too small.
Our stadiums are “pipsqueak”, not big enough at all!
Just think of all the Christians in the past two thousand years.
The angels and the saints of old. It certainly appears
That we’ll be packed together like sardines in a tin.
But will it really bother us if we can be with Him?
Perhaps we will surround Him in some sort of a ball,
With Jesus in the centre – our God and Lord of all.
How will the world receive Him? I think they’ll weep and wail.
The wasted opportunities; perhaps their hearts will fail?
Perhaps recriminations will spiral out of hand.
But righteousness will take control in each and every land.
One thing we know for certain, we’ll see Him as He is.
No longer just a promise; .at last we will be His.
Yes, we will be God’s children because we have received
The Lord of all creation. In Him we have believed!
His great and precious promises at last will all come true.
And all He has prepared for us will flood into our view.
We cannot comprehend the things that Jesus has prepared.
The blessings we’ve experienced just cannot be compared,
With what He has stored up for us. Our minds would all go “tilt”
If we had just an inkling of what He’s done and built.
And we will fully know Him! We’ll see Him face to face.
No longer a reflection; but the fullness of His grace.
A resurrection body like His we will “put on”.Our lowly bodies be transformed; our former struggles gone.
But what is most important and worth it’s weight in gold
Is that when we are with Him we’ll never more grow old.
And that which we’ve experienced we’ll find was so worth while.
For more than all of the rewards, will be to see Him smile.
Jim Strickland – written Saturday, 25 June 2011
