Christ's yesterday was the accomplishment of redemption. His tomorrow is having His Church with Himself in glory. But He is a living Christ for today.
What the mind is most fixed on gives its impress to the mind. If my feelings and thoughts are fixed on Christ, I get the impress of Christ. If I am continually turning to Him in His inexhaustible love, I shall get the impress of it. And if my soul then rises to Christ in that freshness of love which can say, "Come, Lord Jesus," there is His answer in all freshness: "Surely I come quickly.”
He does not forget us as we toil through the wilderness and the sands of the desert; He is with us all the way, and all the freshness is in Him. If my heart turns to the heart of the Son of God, I find His heart immeasurably more full of love than mine and it is always fresh in its love. I may be a way worn pilgrim, but in Him I shall find freshness—a spring of cold water—when I am fainting in the wilderness.
Oh, for that love which is in the heart of Christ that knows no weariness, no dragging steps, and no hanging down of the hands!