Clothed In Righteousness

"As for me, I will continue beholding

Your face in righteousness;

I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake

to find myself beholding Your form

and having sweet communion

with You."

Psalm 17:15

White As Snow

Greg Olsen

What beautiful words,

what a beautiful expectation-

the expectation of every true believer,

one that extends beyond the end of time

and out into eternity.

 We shall fall asleep in death,

but one day we shall awake

and when we awake we

will be satisfied with

the likeness of the Lord.

Awaking, clothed in His righteousness,

putting on His likeness

and beholding His face.

 I just rejoice in that phrase,

"I will be satisfied."

I don't believe there's anything else

that can fully satisfy the human heart

but God Himself.

At this time in this life

we have contact with God.

We know Him, we serve Him,

we do His will.

 But there are gaps 

in the revelation, there's a veil

in between, we are still

creatures of flesh..

Our ideas and concepts

are so limited and inadequate

to apprehend God,

but there's going to be a day

when we wake in His righteousness,

not in our own,

clothed with His righteousness,

faultless to stand before His throne,

to see Him face to face.

And then we will be satisfied.

Nothing else can take the place of that.

That's the end of all living.

It all ends in God Himself.

Derek Prince

(1915-2003)