walk down
here.

Oh! for the reality of this! This same blessed Lord is with us, for
us, above us. We can count on His unchanging love. We can count on
His power. The reality of the Person of our exalted Lord keeps us
down here. Oh, draw near, beloved reader, for it is your privilege,
your calling, to know Him and to enjoy Him. His heart is never
satisfied unless you drink deep of His love and you lie in blessed
dependence at His feet. Have you failed Him? Are days, weeks,
perhaps months of wandering your past, days in which you grieved
Him? Return, oh return! it is "this same Jesus" who at the lake of
Tiberias so tenderly restored Peter and who waits for thy return.

And "this same Jesus" comes again. If the joy was so great when He
left, because the heavenly messengers gave the good news that this
same Jesus is coming again, what will be the joy when he _does_
come! He comes as Saviour, which is the meaning of His blessed name.
"For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of
humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body"
(Phil. iii:20-21). The glorious appearing of the great God and our
Saviour Jesus Christ who gave Himself for us, will some day take
place. And when He comes into the air and gives the shout, He will
be "this same Jesus." When we are caught up in clouds to meet Him in
the air we shall meet _Him_, the same blessed Person, who walked on
this earth, who died on the cross, who in His unchanging love kept
and carried us and called us home. We shall see Him as He is. He
comes, this same Jesus, to take us to be with Him. What will be His
joy then when all His blood-washed, redeemed people are at last with
Him! Then this same Jesus who bore our sins in His own body on the
tree will bestow upon us His glory, the glory the Father has given
Him.

Reader! Is it even now before you such a living reality, this same
Jesus--is coming again; coming to take us all into the Father's
house with its many mansions, to the place whose portals were opened
with His own blood! And how soon it may be that we shall see Him and
be with Him!

If an angelic message were brought to-day to all Christians, we said
recently in a meeting, and that message would state in terms
unmistakably, one week more and the Lord Jesus Christ comes, one
week more and we shall see Him; what would be the result? We can
imagine the eagerness with