TUESDAY April 8th
Revelation 3:4
‘Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.’
A future walk
Well by the time we will have reached this point, which I have called our future walk, we will have finished our earthly pilgrimage, we will have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, and we will be walking in the presence of God!
Yes, for everyone who has been washed in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and been made clean, dressed in white robes, we will be found among the great throng of those who will be standing around the throne of God declaring
‘“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing!” And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honour and glory and might forever and ever!” Revelation 5.
In Revelation 7:9-10 we read this ‘After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”’
Application: There is a very simple yet serious application today: It is only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life who will be found in heaven, walking and rejoicing in the presence of God and of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We need first to have accepted Jesus as Saviour and then we need to have ensured that we have done all we can to have kept ourselves unspotted by the world.
If you know Jesus, are you living in readiness for this future walk, and if you do not know Jesus, please consider that you will not and cannot enter heaven, he is the only way, he is the only one who has died for you so that you can come to him and be saved.
If you have the time read a little more about the wonderful future for those who know Jesus from Revelation chapters 21-22.