Jude 1:24

Ponder in your mind that wondrous word, “faultless!” We are far from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in His work of love, we will reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep His people to the end, will also present them at last to Himself, as a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but holy and without blemish. All the jewels in the Saviour’s crown are of the first water and without a single flaw.

All the maids of honor who attend the Lamb’s wife are pure virgins without spot or stain. But how will Jesus make us faultless? He will wash us from our sins in His own blood until we are white and fair as God’s purest angel; and we will be clothed in His righteousness, that righteousness which makes the saint who wears it positively faultless; indeed, perfect in the sight of God.

We will be blameless and irreproachable even in His eyes. His law will not only have no charge against us, but it will be magnified in us. Moreover, the work of the Holy Spirit within us will be altogether complete. He will make us so perfectly holy, that we will have no lingering tendency to sin.

Judgment, memory, will—every power and passion will be emancipated from the bondage of evil. We will be holy even as God is holy, and in His presence we will dwell forever. Saints will not be out of place in heaven; their beauty will be as great as that of the place prepared for them.

Oh, the rapture of that hour when the everlasting doors will be lifted up, and we, being made fit for the inheritance, will dwell with the saints in light! Sin gone, Satan shut out, temptation past forever, and ourselves “faultless” before God—this will be heaven indeed! Let us be joyful now as we rehearse the song of eternal praise that will soon roll forth in full chorus from all the blood-washed host; let us copy David’s exultations before the ark as a prelude to our ecstasies before the throne.