IT is blessed to know that the present confusion will not go on forever. As certainly as God has spoken, so shall the prayer, “Thy kingdom come,” be answered at last, and all earth’s dominions shall become the kingdom of our God and His Christ. Then His saints will be rewarded for all their toils and sufferings, and righteous retribution shall be meted out to those who have defied the High and Holy One and made mankind miserable by their wrongdoing.
We who have trusted Christ as our Saviour are called upon to own Him even now as earth’s rightful Sovereign, and to yield Him glad and loyal obedience during the time that He is still the rejected One. Those who suffer with Him now shall reign with Him when He is revealed from heaven in power and majesty. What joy it will be to see the One who was crowned with thorns, crowned with the imperial diadem of the universe in that day! And who can estimate the blessing that His personal rule will bring to this poor world, so long distracted by man’s sin and rebellion against God.
“Thy kingdom come—on bended knee
The passing ages pray;
The faithful souls have yearned to see
On earth that kingdom’s day.
But the slow watches of the night
Not less to God belong,
And for the everlasting right
The silent stars are strong.
And lo, already on the hills
The flags of dawn appear;
Gird up your loins, ye prophet souls.
Proclaim the day is near:
The day in whose clear shining light
All wrong shall revealed,
When justice shall be clothed with might,
And every hurt be healed!
When knowledge, hand in hand with peace,
Shall walk the earth abroad—
The day of perfect righteousness,
The promised day of God!”
—Frederick Lucian Hosmer.