Let us keep our balance. We love and serve the same Jesus as did those saints who went before us. His return to earth is at hand and so the Scriptures are opening to us. We can now perceive the eternal plan of the Lord God to provide a complement, a helper suited to His beloved Son. The Lord Jesus will find His life and joy in His helper—someone with whom to share the new physical creation that will appear after the thousand-year Kingdom Age has transpired.

God Almighty can experience loneliness. This is not possible to the angels. God brought forth a Son, Jesus Christ. All God's pleasure is in His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased.

Now God is providing for the loneliness of His Son by creating a Wife for Him on His body and blood.

Abraham found joy in Isaac. Abraham sent Eliezer as God has sent the Holy Spirit, so to speak, to bring back a bride for Isaac.

So it is today. The faithful Holy Spirit comes laden with the wealth of the Father to seek a bride for the beloved Son, the only Son. The household of God will be occupied with the wealth that has arrived from Heaven but the Bride will be thinking only of the Son. She will return immediately with the Holy Spirit, forgetting the wealth that had been brought by the Messenger.

The true Bride of the Lamb is occupied with the Son. Although this is not her motive, the fact that she has gained the Son means she has gained the inheritance as well.

Let others be occupied with the things of God. Let us remember the unbelievable event that is taking place in our lifetime. God is preparing an eternal helper for His Son. You can be part of this marriage if you are willing to turn aside from your own life and ambitions and learn to live by His body and blood.

The prophets are speaking of change—change in the world and change in the Christian churches. I believe this is a true word.

James told us the Judge is standing at the door. The Judge is the Lord Jesus Christ. God has entrusted all judgment to Him.

The door is the door of the human heart. Today when we approach a seeker we do not say, "Repent and believe the Gospel and you shall receive the forgiveness of your sin." This is what the Apostles preached, according to the Book of Acts. Maybe this is what we should be preaching.

Somehow we find ourselves saying, "Let Jesus into your heart." This the Apostles did not preach. Perhaps it is because the Judge is standing at the door of the hearts of people as never before.

I do not think "standing before the door" has anything to do with time. I believe James is referring to the fact that Christ is drawing near to the people on the earth.

In the last church, that of Laodicea, we find:

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20—NIV)

The above is a marvelous promise and was given to the worst church of all, the lukewarm assembly of Laodicea.

To be continued.