We "see" Him more clearly each day toward the end of our discipleship. Christ has been formed in us. The Father and the Son are taking up Their abode in us. We enter the eternal love, joy, peace, and righteousness of the Day of the Lord. The plan of redemption has attained its goal in our personality—spirit, soul, and, at the coming of the Lord, our body.

What was complex has now become simple. The doubts and pains that have accompanied the formation of our character now are forgotten, although their effect remains for eternity. The everlasting romance begins. All explanations are given and we know as we are known.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (John 17:21)

God and Christ come to dwell in the members of the Body of Christ. The fullness of Divine power is there, in the Father. The fullness of Divine Character and Image are there, in the Son.

The earth and its peoples, and all else of the creation of God, belong now to the saints. They will move out in the Spirit of God to their assigned inheritances. The power for total judgment, total deliverance, total righteousness, total peace, will be in them and with them. Through the conquering saints the love of the Father in Jesus will flow to heal the people to whom the saints are sent.

The world will believe because the world will behold the Glory of God in the face of Christ in each saint.

And the glory that thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (John 17:22)

The Glory of Christ, that Divine Glory that has no limitations, knows no boundaries, that is "waters to swim in," is given to each believer who keeps the words of Christ. Each member of the Body of Christ is filled with the Father and the Son. The Whole is one living Being—the Manifestation of God the Father through Christ the Son.

The Divine love makes us all one as Christ is One in God and with God, and God is One in Christ and with Christ.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)

Does God the Father love us as He loves His firstborn Son, the Lord Jesus Christ? Is there a comparable word in the Scriptures?

In God's holy Temple, Mount Zion, His eternal dwelling place, His living House, there are many places of restful occupancy. Do you desire to become part of the House of God?

The new Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb, is the completed House of God—the revelation to God's entire creation of His Person, His will, His law, His love. The holy city is one whole. It is God in Christ in the saints. The mortar of the structure is Divine love.

The Apostle John heard no sound coming from the new Jerusalem-at least he didn't state that he did. Why not? Perhaps it is because in the present hour the song without end can be heard only by the individual. One day it may sound throughout the entire creation.

"Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away." (from In My Father's House)