Sonship, Future Manifestation of – Charles Spurgeon

CANNOT you imagine that a child taken from the lowest ranks of society, who is adopted by a Roman senator, will be saying to himself, “I wish the day were come when I shall be publicly revealed as the child of my new father. Then, I shall leave off these plebeian garments, and be robed as becomes my senatorial rank.” Happy in what he has received, for that very reason he groans to get to the fullness of what is promised him. So it is with us today. We are waiting until we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. You are young princes, and you have not been crowned yet. You are young brides, and the marriage-day is not come, and by the love your spouse bears you, you are led to long and to sigh for the marriage-day. Your very happiness makes you groan; your joy, like a swollen spring, longs to leap up like some Iceland Geyser, climbing to the skies, as it heaves and groans within the affections of your spirit for want of space and room by which to manifest itself to men.