It is Him that I Want

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Psa. 17:15 “As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.”

I was delighted this morning to read this story about a young Christian at the deathbed of an old saint. Here’s their conversation;

The young Christian ask the old saint “Shall I read to you the sweetest verse in the Bible?” “Yes,” was the reply. The young man read the verse in John 14: “In My Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” “No,” said the dying saint, “that is not the sweetest verse. Read on.” The young man read on: “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” “That is the sweetest,” said the dying man. “It is not the mansions – it is Himself I want.”

This indeed has put some tears in my eyes. Just like the verse above told us, this is the realization of the greatest Christian hope of all: To be with Him and to be like Him. Rapture and rewards are just secondary, the one that I am really looking at is to be with Him!