From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
November 1 "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me
where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you
loved me before the creation of the world." John 17:24 Nothing short of the revelation and communication of this
glory could satisfy the heart of God; and nothing short of the partaking of
this glory can satisfy the heart of man. Heaven short of this would be no
heaven to his soul. Not to see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ;
to have no view of the glory of an incarnate God; not to be conformed to his
glorious image, so as to be perfectly holy both in body and soul--were these
things denied, there would be no heaven at all for the redeemed among the
children of men. But God, in giving the saints heaven as their happy home,
gave them with it an eternal weight of glory. He has designed that all whom
he has chosen unto salvation should reach the heavenly shore; that none
should suffer shipwreck by the way; that sin should not be their ruin; that
Satan should not succeed in any of his devices against their eternal safety;
but that every member of the mystical body of Christ should be forever with
their glorious Head in the realms of bliss, to behold and to be partakers of
the glory which shall be revealed when he comes and all his saints with him.
It is the prospect of this eternal glory which animates
the Christian in all his battles against sin, and encourages him never to
quit the field until victory crown the strife. It nerves his heart in all
the troubles and trials of this mortal state, still to press forward to win
this immortal prize, that he may safely reach that land where tears are
wiped from off all faces, and where the glory of God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit will be seen and enjoyed through the glorified
humanity of Jesus without a cloud to dim its rays, or intercept its eternal
luster.