Anticipating that Day

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Revelation 7:9-10

That is the day the gospel drives us to long for. Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations,temptations, distractions,apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points us to heaven where our King Jesus- the Lamb of God who was crucified in our place and raised gloriously from the dead- now sits interceding for us. Not only so, but it calls us forward to that final day when heaven will be filled with the roaring noise of millions upon millions of forgiven voices hailing him as crucified Savior and King.

Greg Gilbert, What is the Gospel