O To Be Found in Christ JESUS at The Great Day

"My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God." -Psalm 42:2 [KJV]


Has your heart ever panted after the Lord Jesus as the hart panteth after the water brooks? Do you ever lie in the dust mourning over your sins against such bleeding, dying love? Do you ever ask God to kindle in your soul an intense desire to have Jesus as your Christ, that He may be your delight here and your portion for ever?


Surely there is that in Him which is not in anything below the skies, and which if not found here will not be found hereafter. If you have no love or affection for Him, why is it but because He has not endeared Himself to your soul? But if He has manifested Himself to you, you have seen and felt enough of His blessedness to convince you that there is no real peace or happiness out of Him.


It is true that you may have many trials and temptations to encounter; many perplexities and sorrows may be spread in your path; but be not dismayed, for the love of Christ, if you have ever felt that love shed abroad in your heart, will bear you more than conqueror through them all. The Lord make and keep us faithful to the truth as it has been made known to our consciences; and may the goodness and mercy of God shine into our hearts and shed abroad its rays of light and joy in our darkest moments and under our severest trials.


And O to be found in Him at the great day, as members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones, to be found the Lord's "peculiar treasure" in that day when He maketh up His jewels! (Ref: Malachi 3:17). And O then where will be those who are not found in the Lord Jesus? They will call upon the mountains and the rocks to "fall on them and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb."


-preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)

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