As soon as we have been received into the Kingdom Age we shall have a thousand years of exposure to the Glory of God—the blazing Holiness that transfigured the face of Moses, at which no man can gaze and live. We shall be bathed in the holy Fire continually.

Prolonged exposure to God's Glory will refine and mature the Divine gold in us. The glass-like transparency, so prominent in the new Jerusalem, will characterize our personality. Still, we scarcely will be able to minister before Him in the manner that Christ ministers before Him. We are speaking now of the Ancient of Days, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, at the memory of whom the demons tremble in terror.

One day we shall be able to behold God's Face. One day we shall be prepared to minister to Him and have His name impressed in our personality—body, soul, and spirit. God dwells forever in the beauty of His holiness, the same holiness that now is being created in us.

The holiness of God includes more than refraining from indulging in a prescribed list of behaviors. The radiant beauty of holiness is the transparent Nature of God Himself. There is no darkness, no uncleanness whatever in the Nature of God. His holiness is so pure, so clean, so shining, so blameless, so loving, so single-minded in purpose and intention, that we by contrast are seen to be very small and mean.

Indeed, we have been called by the Lord to be a holy nation, a royal priesthood. Since God has called us to Himself, to love Him alone, to be a peculiar treasure to Him out of all the peoples of the earth, should we not lay aside all other ambitions and enthusiasms and direct the springs of our desires and energies toward obeying diligently His every desire?

It will require our whole attention and willingness if we are to bear faithfully with the rigorous training to which we shall be subjected.

We must, as did Paul, keep on looking toward the glory that is to be ours if we are to be able to endure with steadfast patience the circumstances God sends our way. To minister as a priest before God is a calling so high that no other destiny can be compared with it in any manner.

Whoever has difficulty deciding what calling to pursue, that of God or that of his own, will have trouble until he makes a decision. God will not be spurned. He is jealous over those whom He has chosen.

Let us Christians, each having been chosen as a priest of God Almighty, be diligent to make serving the Lord the first business of our life. If we do, His training program will result in our being able to behold His Face forever and to represent Him throughout His creation to the ages of ages.

To be continued.