Greetings From the Kids!

2 John 13  "The children of your chosen sister send their greetings." NIV

      Lord, the format with which the men of old wrote their letters, or in this case "post cards", is so different from the way we do now in the West.  Ours is backward compared to theirs.  Here John gives greetings from "your chosen (elect) sister" .  The KJV uses the word elect.  As far as I can tell from study, we don't know who that sister is, but it must have been a sweet relationship for John to mention them.  I can imagine that it brought joy to the reader.
      Lord, every once in a while, I get a call from a very good friend and "sister" from back at our home church in Sodus, NY.  It is precious because we pick up right where we left off.  We talk mostly about You and what You are doing in our lives and the lives of our children and families.  It is a precious time.  I picture the recipient of this letter feeling quite the same.  It is that way with folks that we love...family.  It is going to be so much sweeter in Heaven when we are all together with no fleshly sin nature to disrupt communion among us, all on our faces worshiping You with all of the saints from the past.  Oh, that will indeed be glory for me!
      A sweet sister and I were talking yesterday afternoon about how we hear folks talk about the first thing they want to do in heaven is ask questions, greet loved ones, tour their new mansion, or talk with the men of old like Paul, Peter, Steven, etc.  We came to the same conclusion: we want to see You and just gaze on Your face, look into Your eyes of love and compassion, worship You, learn from You, thank You for all that You are and all You did for us.  We figured that would take several hundred if not thousands of years.  Oh, there will be the marriage supper of the Lamb and we will have a room in our Father's house and be reunited with loved ones from all the ages...but the paramount joy there will be to worship YOU face to face!