“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2 There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.” (John 14:1-3, NLT) My mentor E. Stanley Jones taught me how to get connected to Jesus. I had to give up myself. Realizing that in the shrine of my heart I would bend my knee to some master, I chose to let Christ master me. I shall never forget listening as Jones described the time he bowed before the marvelous statue of Thorvaldsen’s “Christ” in a Copenhagen cathedral. A Danish friend whispered to Jones, “You will not be able to see His face unless you kneel at His feet.” Brother Stanley knelt at His feet, “and only then was His face looking into mine.” Then Jones observed, as though he was speaking to me, “You cannot really see Christ till you surrender to Him. Those who stand afar off, surveying Him, never really see His face. So bend the knee. Be conquered by Him.” I did. I bent my knees. He changed my life. So Now, like the blind hymnwriter Fanny Crosby, I too can sing “Someday my earthly house will fall, I cannot tell how soon ‘twill be; but this I know – my All in All has now a place in heaven for me.” Shall I cringe at the thought of death? No! Why? Because I have been saved by grace and one day I shall see my Master not in a statue but face to face! + + +