In Job, chapter nineteen, verse twenty-seven, the servant of God longing to see his Redeemer God far outweighed all other desires expressed in this book. Job yearned to see the Lord’s face in full redemption. Likewise, New Testament believers long for the coming of their Savior as in First Corinthians one, verse seven, and Second Timothy four, verse eight, and the day of consummation, when “the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them,” as in Revelation twenty-one, verse three, and “they shall see His face,” as in Revelation twenty-two, verse four.
Job craved to see God for his pleasure and profit, to his great advantage and happiness, and his inexpressible joy and satisfaction, as in Psalms seventeen, verse fifteen, “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” And Job believed his eyes shall behold and not another, or “a stranger.” For believers, the very selfsame eyes will see with and will behold this glorious Person, God in our nature, and not the eyes of another, of a strange body, a body not of our own; or as His people will see him with spiritual eyes, with the eyes of faith and knowledge, as the living Redeemer, so shall the faithful see him with my bodily eyes after the resurrection, and enjoy uninterrupted communion with him, which a stranger shall not: one that has never known anything of him, or ever intermeddled with the joy of saints here, such shall not see him hereafter, at least with pleasure; like Balaam, they may see him, but not nigh, may behold him, but afar off: though “my reins be consumed within me”; or “in my bosom.”