Motives

Many of these have never been cleared or settled, nor will be until the coming judgment seat when all of our deeds pass in review before Him. Will there be no redress of such injuries?
Will the Lord not make it manifest what He saw and what He knew of the motives which were at work? We will all be happy to have these things cleared away then, for there will be no flesh in any of us. But how could all this take place if the saints in glory were one indistinguishable throng? After the rapture, and before the marriage of the Lamb, everything that could possibly sully one atom of glory will have been judged and cleared in His presence. In the light of this, how important it is to judge ourselves now before Him, and to walk with a pure conscience day by day!
It is sad to witness some Christians being involved in altercations and quarrels with other Christians and saying, "This will have to go to the judgment seat of Christ." Should we not judge it before the Lord NOW and where necessary, before our brethren too? And, if it should be done, make restitution now. It is a solemn thing for Christians to allow difficulties with other Christians which remain unresolved until the day of Christ.
When that which is perfect is come, then we shall know also as we are known (1 Cor. 13:10,12). We can little comprehend the wonders of those scenes into which we are soon to enter. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." 1 Cor. 2:9.
Was it only for the Israelites that God said, as the end of the wilderness came into view: "Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness"? Deut. 8:2. Is there not an application for us as we too near the end of the wilderness journey? Shall we not review all His ways with us and shall they not magnify His grace and His goodness? Well can we sing with the poet:
I'll bless the hand that guided,
I'll bless the heart that planned,
When throned where glory dwelleth,
In Immanuel's land.

When we behold how His grace cared for us, and brought us safely to Himself amid all our failures, we shall praise Him as we should.
The story has been told of the eccentric preacher of old. Rowland Hill (of The Three Bidders fame) who was one day asked by his wife, "Rowland, do you think we will know each other in heaven?" He replied tersely. "Do you think we will be bigger fools there than we are here?" Surely we await the coming of "that which is perfect." P. Wilson