Having Our Eye Upon Christ and His Coming - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus Our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
Philippians 3:14, 20

Having Our Eye Upon Christ and His Coming
A heavenly life will never be found save in one who is in present communion with Christ about the place to which He is leading us. And a heart can never be abidingly in communion with the heart of Christ and be identified with the world that does not know Him. The Holy Spirit bids us keep our eye fixed on Christ, as He is conducting us on to the glory.

Paul wanted the full manifestation of Christ in glory; his eye was directed upward, watching Him in heaven, looking for His coming. Paul had discarded everything that came between him and a risen Christ upon the throne. Paul was going uphill, looking straight up to heaven, living upon the hope of Christ's coming.

Do you and I live in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ's coming at any moment? Is that the hope that sheds light on everything? It is of immense practical comfort, as well as power. If it were always the present object of the heart, how would it be possible to be overcome by the trials and difficulties we have to pass through? He may be coming tonight, or we might have years of trial or of persecution in the wilderness, but in the thought of His coming to fetch us, can we not forget this body of humiliation and these trials until then? If I can calculate on His love all the way, I shall be able to meet every difficulty. Does anyone say, "I know that Christ will come at last to fetch me, but He forgets me in my difficulties now"?

The grand expression of His love is that He will come Himself to fetch us to bring us to His Father's house. No other tomorrow is given us by the Spirit but Christ in heaven, coming to take us up there.

G. V. Wigram