Transformation

Enter the joy of the Lord. Thou shall make me full of joy with your countenance (Acts 2:28).

In this mortal life, Jesus understood our joy would never be complete. However, He also understood that experiencing complete joy hinged on resurrected life, a life of knowing the Father through Jesus and Jesus through the Father. The same love has also been given to us. The overwhelming joy of encountering our Lord face to face far surpasses any happiness we’ve known.  The Father will fill us with overflowing joy. We have known Jesus and the Father, but only to some extent. This amplified joy, occurs at the same time as the second coming.

Paul, a follower of Jesus, suggests a preference for being with God over staying alive in the physical body. Still, he insists a resurrected body surpasses having no body whatsoever.

While in this tent, our groans stem not from our formlessness, but from longing for resurrected bodies. Therefore, mortality will be consumed by light. So, his suggestion is that the state of being clothed in Christ is far better than having no body.

Our holiness will be complete at that moment! Our mortality is what holds us back. The new body will allow for a previously impossible expression of Christ to emerge. With this transformation, our spirits and Christ’s will be joined. Entering the joy of our master. Jesus describes His return as the moment we will experience His joy. This is a fulfillment. His delight becomes our delight.

A place was to be prepared for us; however, Jesus continued by saying He’d come and take us to be with Him. His description of His Father’s house—a place with many rooms—includes a mansion prepared for us. However, that whole vision disappears when He says, “I take you to myself”. The reason Jesus went to prepare a place was to return and bring us to be with Him. The focus isn’t the room, the place, nor the mansion. It’s Jesus Himself! Jesus serves as both the way preparer and the destination. His arrival aims to bring about personal unity. Our joy will be complete through this path. In Jesus, we find our home.

The scripture adds that those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, come to them and make his home with them. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Your room in the Father’s house, is Jesus. Get ready, I’m coming for you! It’s a personal welcome to Himself.

His arrival brings joy, like a wedding feast. Only the five wise virgins, were prepared, entered; then, the door was shut. Stay dressed for action and ready for His return. Stay awake! Eager and alert!

Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He comes shall find watching; verily I say to you, that He shall gird Himself, and make them sit down to eat, and He will come forth and serve them (Luke 12:37).

That’s quite a change; now the servants are being served by the master.