d then He Himself arises
from His seat and descends to that place in the air, where He will
meet His own, for whom His loving heart yearns so much. What a
moment that will be at last! Then His waiting as well as His
patience will be ended and He will receive His kingdom and be
crowned Lord of lords and King of kings. No longer will He then be
unseen, but His Glory will flash out of heaven and He Himself will
be manifested in Glory. Then the world can reject Him no longer but
must accept His righteous rule in which His redeemed people will
share. What child of God does not wish this to be soon, very soon.
Oh that we might cry more earnestly, more in the Spirit, yes,
incessantly, "Come Lord Jesus."

But while He waits and the hour has not yet come we must wait as He
waits on the throne. To the Thessalonians who had listened to
teachers who judaized the blessed hope, fearing they were facing the
day of the Lord with its tribulation and wrath, the Apostle wrote:
"And the Lord direct your hearts in the love of God, and into the
patient waiting for Christ" (2 Thess. iii:5). But we must not only
wait patiently _for_ Him but also wait _with_ Him. He is the
rejected One. The world cast Him out. As the rejected One He waits
in patience for the hour of His triumph and His Glory. This place of
rejection is our greatest privilege to share. And where is He more
rejected than in that which calls itself by His Name! To bear His
reproach in these closing days of this present age is our blessed
opportunity. To suffer with Him, if not for Him, should be that for
which our hearts should long, yea, pray. And we will be glad to be
rejected with Him, to be nothing at this present time, to have
fellowship with His sufferings, if He as the patient waiting Lord is
ever before our hearts.

At the close of the one hundred and tenth psalm stands a word, which
we should also remember.

"He shall drink of the brook in the way,
Therefore shall He lift up the head."

It has puzzled many readers what this saying might mean. It speaks
to our hearts of His humiliation and exaltation. One thinks at once
of the three hundred of Gideon and how they stooped down to drink.
The brook is the type of death. He drank of the brook in the way.
His way was from Glory to Glory, and between were His sufferings.
And, therefore, He shall lift up the head. Wherefore, God has highly
exalted Him. May we all, dear readers, follow in His path and suffer
with Him;