We Shall Appear with Christ in Glory

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:4.

What are we looking at? Why stand we gazing on perishing objects? What are we waiting for? The Saviour? He shall appear. Perhaps the very next moment, as the Lord of life and death; he may say to the last enemy, Go, bring that saved sinner to me, his life. O joyful word! Learn to welcome it. Faith will. For, “We shall appear with him in glory.” How shall we appear? In what we were by faith, were not ashamed of, but gloried in here. “Arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: the rich robe of Christ’s obedience, which is the righteousness of saints.” (Revelation 19:8.) Mind, this is granted to us. If it was our own righteousness, we have a right to appear in it. There needs no grant of it. But it is Christ’s righteousness. Therefore a gift by grant to us. O remember, it is a sure and certain thing we shall appear (all the powers of hell cannot prevent it) with Christ in glory.

- excerpt from William Mason's A Spiritual Treasury For The Children of God, Volume 2, December 29