I believe that if I am near the Lord Jesus Christ, I shall find in His heart a special affection about a people down here who are waiting for Him not waiting for glory, but for Him, which is quite a different thing.
Do I love Him? Do I not know He was my Substitute? Do I not want to see Him? Has He not taken from my mind everything that harassed and perplexed me? Do I know that for [more than] eighteen hundred years He has been sitting at the right hand of God, with everything His own, but with a craving in His heart that will never be satisfied till He has us till He has me home with Himself?
Knowing this in nearness to Himself, can I be satisfied till I see Him face to face in the glory of all divine, uncreated light?
I do not so much think of the glory we shall enter into, but what my heart recognizes is the sweet truth that it is the Lord and myself that are to be in companionship together. Our going and His coming, though different things, are both connected with the deep consciousness formed in the heart that we are to be in Christ’s own individual presence and not till then, not till there satisfied.
G. V. Wigram