And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17

And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Like an Iceland Geyser

Waiting for the adoption.
  Romans 8:23

"Even in this world saints are God's children,
but men cannot discover them to be so,
except by certain moral characteristics.

The adoption is not manifested,
the children are not yet openly declared.

Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and keep it private for a long time:
but there was a second adoption in public;
when the child was brought before the constituted authorities its former garments were taken off,
and the father who took it to be his child gave it raiment suitable to its new condition of life.

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be."

We are not yet arrayed in the apparel which befits the royal family of heaven;
we are wearing in this flesh and blood just what we wore as the sons of Adam;
but we know that "when He shall appear" who is the "first-born among many brethren," we shall be like Him, we shall see Him as He is.

Cannot you imagine that a child taken from the lowest ranks of society,
and adopted by a Roman senator, would say to himself,
"I long for the day when I shall be publicly adopted. Then I shall leave off these plebeian garments, and be robed as becomes my senatorial rank"?

So it is with us today. We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. We are young nobles, and have not yet worn our coronets. .....
our joy, like a swollen spring, longs to well up like an Iceland geyser, leaping to the skies, and it heaves and groans within our spirit for want of space and room by which to manifest itself to men."
Charles Spurgeon