“The seven golden lampstands [margin] are seven churches.”
Revelation 1:20
In Revelation 2 and 3, we are shown the Son of man moving among
the lampstands and affirming the individual responsibility of each to himself.
Our eyes, following his, readily detect the many failures
in the churches; but has it occurred to us that John nowhere distinguishes between
the churches that are right and the churches that are wrong? For all their
faultiness, he writes of them as the Lord himself still sees them: namely, as
“seven golden lampstands,” seven candlesticks all of gold.
What God is doing through men is eternal—not just
something for ten or twenty years. What God has in view he will never abandon,
for the very good reason that he himself never changes.
A person who cannot afford to wear true pearls buys paste
beads and thinks of them as imitation pearls. But to the one who has real
pearls there is no such thing as imitation pearls. To her there are not real
pearls and false pearls; there are only pearls.
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