" Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching: verily, I say unto you, that He shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." Luke 12: 37.
Then—" His servants shall serve Him "-serve Him then as we ought, and not according to our thoughts, as we do here, alas so often.
" And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there." No need there of burning lamps; for " they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign forever and ever." That is, not only shall they reign with Christ over the earth during the thousand years of the millennial kingdom of righteousness and peace, where " righteousness reigns," but in the eternal state of the new heavens and the new earth, where " righteousness dwelleth " (referred to in 2 Peter 3.). His servants, so poor, feeble, and unworthy here, but then perfect like Him in glorious. bodies, " shall reign with Him forever and ever."
Fellow servants of Christ, what wondrous prospect is yours and mine through grace! Is it not worth the while to serve a Master so gracious, patient, kind, and liberal? Even a glass of water given by you in His name to a faint and thirsty one, shall not lose its reward! Every tear wept in sympathy, with one of the suffering ones of Him, Who wept at Lazarus' grave, will He " gather in His bottle; " every word of comfort spoken to one of His sick, isolated, or sorrowing ones in some out of the way corner or upper-chamber, will be written down in His " book of remembrance," to the credit of them that " feared the Lord and thought upon His name." " They shall be His," and His great new Name, that once despised Name of the humblest of all servants, that Name which is above every name, and at which every knee shall bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth;—that glorious Name of JESUS shall be written on the foreheads of His servants in the full blaze of glory!
In the day when the Lord will " make up His jewels," every tear wept in sorrow and sympathy for His sake, will shine like a diamond in the sunlight of His countenance, " when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe," when all His numberless servants will reflect His glories; as the dewdrops in the field, sparkling in all the various colors of jewelery at the rise of the sun, reflect the glory of the heavenly orb. And what is it, beloved, that render those tiny dewdrops fit to be reflectors of His glory? It is because they are pure, and free from any earthly alloy; for they came from heaven, and therefore reflect heavenly glory.
Thus it will be with the saints, the servants of the Lord, when they will appear with Him in glory, clothed upon with their house that is from heaven, in their glorious bodies, their glorious livery, the " gala-uniform " of the soldiers of Christ. There will be nothing then in their bodies, no earthly or fleshly alloy, no mixture of self to prevent them from fully reflecting the glories of the once despised Jesus of Nazareth, when He, Whose " visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men," will come to " sprinkle many nations; " with His " countenance as the sun shineth in his strength," yet with " healing in His wings " for His earthly people.
What a radiant reflex will His servants then be! How different to what we are now, alas! Would God we were more like dewdrops-little, pure, and empty, i.e., without alloy! What different lights, what different reflectors of Christ's beauties should we be in this world, and in days like these!