UNTIL HE BRINGS ME HOME

You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:24-26

I can just see him now

Paul Washer describes it best (link here).

And for the first time in all the history of history, a man walked up to the doors of Heaven and cried out what we find here in verse 7: 

“Lift up your head, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the king of glory may come in.”

And all of heaven behind those doors are in utter shock, in silence and wonder. Finally, a brave one lifts his head and begins to speak:

“Who is this king of glory? Who dares speak to these doors? No man has ever dared come this far, or lay his hand to the latch of this wall. Who is this king of glory?”

And then all of a sudden, the Lord, the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God, the man for us, cries out:

“The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates. Lift up your heads. Lift them up, O ancient doors, that the king of glory may come in.”

And in the first time in all time, those doors opened for a man. He walked through those doors, and everything that has ever been made fell on its face. All hail the power of Jesus’s name; let angels prostrate fall! Bring forth the diadem, and crown him lord of all! Crown him with many crowns, this lamb upon the throne.

And I can just see him now, walking up to his Father, bold—it was his right—climbing the steps of this throne that would make Solomon’s throne look like papier-mache, and sits down without even asking, and looks at his Father, not as a question, but as an affirmation, and says,

“Father, it is finished.”

And the Father says,

“Son, it is finished indeed.”

(01:01 - 03:20, transcribed)

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