When We See Jesus

In heaven, the Lord is going to have to help us get comfortable with His proximity. Even John, the apostle whom Jesus loved dearly, when He saw Jesus again at the beginning of his revelation, fell down before Him as though dead. He didn’t run and embrace Him, though He had known physical closeness with Jesus. I believe we are mistaken if we think that our first instinct when we see the Lord will be to embrace Him as a friend.  Our first and correct instinct will be to fall down before Him in total, surrendered worship and adoration.

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead.  But He laid His right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and last, and the living one.  I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades" (Revelation 1:17-18).

But just as Jesus touched John and said, “fear not,” we know that the Lord will touch us. He will personally wipe away the tears from our eyes and teach us how to live with Him forever, as we were meant to do. We will come to love Him even as we are loved.  Can you imagine seeing Jesus in person?  Will we get to see the scars in his hands, feet, and side?  Won't we realize how those scars were for us in a way that is so far beyond what we have known here!  How everything will change when we finally get to see Jesus!