With One Another – Forever!!! (3)

 

 

“When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.” Colossians 3:4.

 

For the present time, our lives are “hidden with Christ in God,” (Col. 3:3). As John writes, “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is” (1 John 3:2).  

 

When Christ appears, then we appear in glory. In the present, we don’t see Him fully, nor do we see ourselves fully; we “see in a mirror dimly” right now, but a Day will come when we will see “face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Then we will see Jesus Christ in His fulness, and we will see one another in our fulness in Christ Jesus. Now we are hidden in Christ, then we shall be revealed in Christ. We will see those who have gone before us as we have never seen them before, and they will see us as they have never seen us before – and we will also see Jesus Christ as we have never seen Him before.

 

No wonder the creation is groaning and travailing as it yearns for the unveiling of the sons and daughters of God (Rom. 8:19 – 23).

 

John writes (1 John 1:3), “…what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have koinonia with us; and indeed our koinonia is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.”

 

Consider the order of this verse. Why does John want the recipients of his letter to have fellowship (koinonia) with him and his companions? So that the recipients might also have koinonia with the Father and the Son. In other words, having koinonia with John and his companions in Christ means also having koinonia with the Father and the Son.

 

Most of us would not use this language. Our language is more likely to be, “We are writing so that you may have fellowship with the Father and the Son; and indeed if you have that fellowship then you will also have fellowship with us.”

 

If we have been made partakers of the koinonia of the Trinity (see John chapters 13 – 17), then to have koinonia with John and his companions is to have koinonia with the Trinity, and to have koinonia with the Trinity is to have koinonia with John and his companions. This is the Divine Nature of our Life in Jesus Christ – and that glorious Divine Nature will be fully unveiled on that Day – and just as we will see Jesus Christ in His fulness, so shall we see and know one another in our fulness in Him…we cannot dismember the Body of Christ. 

Eternity is a place  where glory upon glory is revealed in and through and upon the sons and daughters of the Living God as we live in koinonia with one another in the Trinity. We shall know Him and one another as we have been known by Him.

 

To be continued…