'He And I Together Sharing'

by PEDDIE, J. | Category: N/a | Jun 2003

As the Lord's coming draws ever nearer, the lovely thought, 'He and I together sharing all the Father's love!', so well expressed in Mrs Bevan's hymn, should strike a responsive chord in our hearts. An intimate spiritual friendship may be enjoyed in our relationship with our Saviour, Master and future Bridegroom.

Union and communion

Believers may experience the Lord's abiding presence. How graciously and kindly He deals with our thoughtlessness and forgetfulness! His presence is so unobtrusive that we are sometimes unaware that He is still with us. When we do think of Him, and turn to share His company, it may be for only a few seconds or a few minutes, depending on how long our attention span lasts. The Lord wants our company more than we want His (see Rev.3:20). How much time are we willing to give Him in communion? The Lord is used to neglect from His children, which must grieve and sadden Him. In the past, God complained of Israel, 'My people have forgotten Me days without number' (Jer. 2:32). The Lord's love for us is infinite and we are bound to Him by ties that cannot be severed, but that does not mean we should take His love for granted. When we meet the Lord, will it be as a well-known and loved Friend?

Be prepared!

The believer's communion with the Lord Jesus finds poetic expression in the Song of Songs by analogy with the royal lover and his bride. As part of our preparation for meeting the Bridegroom, let us resolve to get to know Him better, be more aware of His presence and commune more often with Him. The King of kings, our royal Bridegroom, is waiting to come to claim His bride. He awaits His Father's appointed time for the marriage; His bride should be preparing herself for her Bridegroom. For His part, everything will be ready for the marriage to His bride:

There made ready are the mansions,

Glorious, bright and fair,

But the Bride the Father gave Him

Still is wanting there.

Anticipate the rapture

When the Lord was here on earth, He was despised and rejected by men; they could see no beauty that they should desire Him, but to His bride He is altogether lovely. In that coming day her 'eyes will see the King in His beauty; they will see the land that is very far off' (Is.33:17). How eager we should be to anticipate the rapture and the change that will result in our bodies being 'conformed to His glorious body' (Phil.3:21).

He and I together entering

Those bright courts above;

He and I together sharing

All the Father's love! ...

Meet companion for the Master,

From Him, for Him made;

Glory of God's grace for ever,

There in me displayed!

We rejoice in the Lord's oft repeated promise, 'I am coming quickly'. In the short time left to us before He comes, may we be preparing our hearts and ordering our lives before Him, abiding in Him so that 'we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming' (1 John 2:28). The Lord looks for tender, loving hearts and lives surrendered to His will. Paul exhorts, 'present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service' (Rom.12:1). We were bought with a price. We owe the Lord so great a debt that we shall never be able to repay in time or eternity. Is any sacrifice on our part too great a price to pay for the Lord who gave His all for us?

PEDDIE, J. | Jun 2003
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