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The LORD is near - Wednesday, April 28, 2022
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

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Occupation With the Unseen

That you may serve the Lord without distraction.
1 Corinthians 7:35

Occupation With the Unseen
The life that is ours in Christ is an essentially heavenly thing. Full understanding and enjoyment of it cannot be until God's full thought concerning us is realized, and we find ourselves in the Father's house, with our bodies fashioned like to the body of the Firstborn Son, all that is mortal being swallowed up by life. But eternal life is really ours now, many a divine statement assuring us of it. Yet it is an exotic in this world, and we need to live in spirit outside of this world if we would enjoy in any measure the rich spiritual portion that God has given to us in His Son.

The apostle's words in 1 Corinthians 7:35 have often powerfully impressed me: "that you may serve the Lord without distraction." What do we know of this? The language supposes the soul living by faith within the precincts of the heavenly sanctuary, holding communion with the Lord without a burden and without a care. This is the Spirit's desire for us all. He is the ever-present divine link between our souls here and Christ there, and it is His deepest delight to make good to faith now those things which will only be entered upon as an actual thing when the Lord returns.

Will any suggest that these remarks are impractical? The reverse is the truth. It is in occupation with the unseen that our souls gather strength for all the circumstances of the way; it is this, and this alone, which renders our hearts buoyant in the midst of all that of necessity comes upon us in an evil world and a fallen Church.

W. W. Fereday
Lord, while we wait the moment when we shall see Thy face,We daily prove the sweetness of Thy sustaining grace;Yea, daily find the comfort of Thine unfailing love,Till we shall know its fullness when with Thee, Lord, above.

F. G. Burkitt

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