7. The "I Will" of Glory

      Now the next "I will" is in John 17:24: "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am."

      This was in His last prayer in the guest chamber on the last night before He was crucified on Calvary. Many a believer's countenance begins to light up at the thought that he shall see the King in His beauty by and by.

      Yes, there is a glorious day before us in the future. Some think that on the first day we are converted we have everything. To be sure, we get salvation for the past and peace for the present; but there is the glory for the future in store. That's what kept Paul rejoicing. He said, 'These light afflictions, these few stripes, these few brickbats and stones that they throw at me–why, the glory that is beyond excels them so much that I count them as nothing, nothing at all, so that I may win Christ.'

      And so, when things go against us, cheer up! Remember that the night will soon pass away, and the morning will dawn upon us. Death never comes there. It is banished from that heavenly land. Sickness, pain and sorrow come not there to mar that grand and glorious Home where we shall be by and by with the Master. God's family will be all together there.