Epic

The moment we are presented in the arms of Christ, we are accepted in Him. Dr. Currie,
a brilliant writer connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, has left a beautiful
incident in his own life. He was the editor of one of the best journals of his
church, and in many ways he was closely connected with its work. He dreamed
one night, a little before his recent death, that he died and went up to the gate of
heaven. There he met an angel and asked to be allowed to enter. The angel asked
him who he was. He answered: "I am Dr. Currie, the editor of the Quarterly
Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church." The angel answered: "I don't know
you, I never heard of you before." Soon he met another angel and told 'him the
same story, and received the same answer: "I don't know you." At last one of the
angels said: "Let us go to the Judge and see if He will know you." He went before
the throne and told the Judge about his life and the 'work he had done for the
church, but received the answer from the Judge: "I don't know you at all." His
heart was beginning to gather the blackness of despair, when suddenly there was
One at his side with a crown of thorns upon His head, who said: "Father, I know
him. I will answer for him." And instantly all the harps of heaven began to sing:
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain," and he was ushered into all the glory of the
celestial world. Not all the preaching we have done, or all the service we have
rendered will amount to anything there. We must be identified with the Man who
wore the thorns; we must be accepted in the Beloved, and then the Father will
love us even as He loves His Son. We shall stand with Him even as Christ does.
-The Fourfold Gospel (A.B. Simpson)