Standing

"From every nation and tribe and people and language standing before the throne," Revelation 7:9.

Can you imagine? Standing with that numberless multitude shouting, Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb? Oh, Yes! We do want to stand with them! When all peoples from all ages before us and beyond us stand victoriously together, united in the glory of God's grace. Wow! what a day will that be! (Goosebumps just thinking about it!) When all suffering of this present time finally fades as we stand together in the glory to come? When, standing together, church triumphant (!), all the uncountable redeemed of the Lord say so? When the whole congregation from all time shouts in one, mighty, united voice, thundering heaven with its praise? I really want Jesus to confess my name there. But he will not, if I will not confess his in this world, if I will not stand in this world with his blood-bought, from every nation and tribe and people and language, church. The church of Christ.

So we repent, ask forgiveness, and confess Jesus as Lord; and we, all of us different, commune together in one body of Christ on this earth. Today we will glory with a brother or sister in our common hope of standing there in that congregation.