Inexpressible Joy

A day is coming, very soon, when you will see your Savior face to face. 

Unhindered joy will be yours. As soon as Jesus comes, your heaviest sufferings will turn featherweight. All you’ve sown in tears, for Jesus’ sake, will become a plentiful harvest of laughter in the presence of God.

That day is coming: you will see the One you believed in. 

But today, you do not see him. You carry the cross without seeing the promise of the resurrection. You sow in heaven without seeing heavenly treasures stored up. You cry out to heaven without seeing the King on the throne.

Will the experience of the Savior only come when we see him face to face?

Peter, who saw Jesus’ glory before his second coming, tells us otherwise:

“Though you have not seen him, you … rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory …” (1 Peter 1:8-9)

Inexpressible, glory-filled joy. 

Sounds like heaven. 

But Peter says this is ours now—before he returns to make all things new.

Today, while you await his final salvation, you can taste “the outcome of your faith,” the salvation of your soul.

Though we can’t yet feel Christ’s scars, we are more blessed than those who believed because they saw (John 20:29). On this side of glory, it is more blessed to receive the fullness of Christ by faith than to feel the flesh of Christ with your fingers.

Are you punting off the experience of Christ’s fullness until you see him face to face?

Do not cast aside the glory-filled joy that Christ offers you here and now.

Reach out the hands of faith—and receive the inexpressible joy Christ has promised today.