DEC 21

Revelation 22:1-20
Memorise Luke 20:27-36
“neither marry, nor are given in marriage”

Remember, the Church is the bride of Christ. Marital love is the highest joy of human life, yea, that first love between a man and a woman. Sad to say, in a world of sin, such love is often short-circuited. Sin spoils it, and hence the tears and separations and divorces.

In heaven, there will be no marriages (Luke 20:35). One central theme of life is to be “married” to the Lord. This word cannot be used in the sense of the individual but of the corporate. To love Him with an ever increasing first love—what greater happiness than this?

Many have experienced the joys of love at first sight, the joys of a happy home though not without tears. But the greatest joy ever to be imbibed is the joy of salvation newly received from the Lord, of being saved from hell and everlasting punishment. Nevertheless, the greatest in the salvation experience is to worship Him and sing praises to His Name even as Augustine has declared, “Worship is the mother of all virtues”. The thrilling ecstasies of worship were experienced by those in the Singapore Pentecost of 1935, in the John Sung Revival. That was a foretaste of heaven, of the new life in the new heaven and the new earth.

Hallelujahs fill the heavens
For the saints have all come home
To Jerusalem! To Jerusalem!
Joyfully they shout hosannas
Come and crown Him King of kings
In the New Jerusalem.

As we are shown all these glories to come, as we are taught the true meaning of life on earth that must be promoted to the heavenlies, so will we hear the Saviour calling out of the Celestial City, “Behold I come quickly, blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book” (Revelation 22:7). And as the angel spoke to John, “Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand” (Revelation 22:10), let us go out to evangelise the lost around and beyond and bring them in before it is too late. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).

Thought: Accelerate missions, hasten His return.

Prayer: Lord, help me to love Thee and serve Thee all the days of my life.