The Word of the LORD our God declares that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). He also promises that if we seek Him, we will find Him — IF — we seek Him with all our heart (Jeremiah 29:13). In other words, IF we diligently seek Him, IF we seek Him with all our heart, He decrees confidently and assertively, “I WILL be found by you.”

So it behooves us to understand two things: if we DON’T diligently seek Him, we will NOT find Him. And if we don’t seek Him with all our heart, He will NOT be found. But what it also says is that finding Him is neither automatic nor a thing to be assumed. Nor is it a trifling or paltry thing. In fact, it is a REWARD. A treasure or “crown of glory” reserved ONLY for those who go about diligently finding Him “with all their heart.” A "crown" is associated with a "prize" (I Cor. 9:24-27, 1 Peter 1:3-5, Phil. 3:l4).

And what IS this reward or prize we are promised that comes with finding Him? The word says in 1 John 3:1-3, when we find Him (which is high reward in itself), we shall SEE Him as He is, for we shall BE like Him. In other words, in order to see Him “as He is”, we need to “BE” like Him. And does Matthew 5:8 not give us the clue to what this means? “Blessed are the PURE IN HEART, for “THEY” shall see God.” So BEING like Him is to be “PURE IN HEART”. For is God not pure in heart? Acts says, “You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’” — ‭‭Acts‬ ‭2:28‬‬‬. By finding “the way to Him” through diligently seeking Him, which is to have made known to me “the ways of life”, He will make us know the fullness of joy that is to “COME INTO HIS PRESENCE”. In other words, to come into His presence means “we shall FIND Him”, as promised in Hebrews 11:6 and Jeremiah 29:13. And when we come into His presence, it will be because by the time that we do, we will have been made “like Him”. Which is to be PURE IN HEART. For only the pure in heart shall SEE Him.

Our reward for being like Him — which is to be pure in heart — is expounded in much greater detail in 1 John 3:1-3. “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him PURIFIES himself, just as He is PURE.”

From this scripture, is the prize or the reward for those who diligently seek Him not then a THREEFOLD reward? ONE, that we shall SEE Him? TWO, that we shall be CALLED “children of God”? And THREE, that we shall BE as He is?

For firstly, “We know that when He is revealed” — which is to see Him — “we shall see Him as he is.” And we shall see Him as he is, which is pure, for we too shall be pure. Because “everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” Where becoming pure is the process of discipleship of rising to the requirements of being made pure of Philippians 2:12 and 1 Thessalonians 5:23 by answering the call to discipleship of Matthew 16:24. Where being made pure is an eventuality we know WILL come to pass because 1 Thessalonians 5:24 declares that “He is faithful to do it”, and Psalm 138:8 declares that “He will perfect all that which concerns us.” And 1 John 3:3 declares, “He who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

Secondly, “Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called children of God!” What an honour!! What manner of love indeed to be called a child of God! Which is when we begin to understand and grasp how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is (Ephesians 3:18).

And thirdly, although “it has not been revealed what we shall be”, we are told “we shall be like Him.” As children of God, according to Hebrews 1:3, to be “like Him” means to be “the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being”. Which is to be both “His image” (radiance of His glory) and “His likeness” (exact representation of His being). Which according to Romans 1:20, means we will have both His “divine nature” on the inside (His being; His likeness) and “His eternal power” on the outside (His glory; His image).

Which is the threefold reward, for a threefold end-to-end journey (1 Thessalonians 5:23), all with the help of a threefold perfect God (1 Thessalonians 5:24) through the maturity continuum of REPENTANCE > REDEMPTION > RESTORATION — all by working out our salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12). For (1) “narrow is the gate” (salvation, through REPENTANCE), and (2) “difficult is the way” (REDEMPTION, through discipleship ), and “few find it” — for many are saved, but few are disciples — but for those who find it, it will (3) “lead to life” (Matthew 7:14). Being the life that is, first, THE LIFE of “salvation”, and then to follow thereafter, the life that is the LIFE ABUNDANTLY (John 10:10), being the “resurrection life received through RESTORATION as a fruit from the work of discipleship unto “the type of man” that man was before the fall of Adam. Which is a man who wears the radiance of His GLORY “on the outside”, namely an imperishable GLORIFIED BODY, and His divine nature “on the inside”, namely a righteous and incorruptible pure or divine nature. With the GLORIFIED BODY being our reward or “crown of GLORY” (1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Peter 1:3-5). Being “an inheritance that is IMPERISHABLE, UNDEFILED, and UNFADING, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME.”

Which speaks of the sons that all of creation waits in anticipation for: “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the REVEALING of the sons of God.” — Romans 8:19. For just as He will be REVEALED to those who diligently seek Him, in the same way, for those who find Him, all of creation waits for their REVEALING, being a REVEALING “reserved for the last time” (1 Peter 1:3-5). And although “it has not been REVEALED what we shall be”, we know they will be those who are raised to life from the fallen nature — which is to take on the life of the divine nature - and they will be those who ascend (like Jesus and Moses, to the mountain top of God’s dwelling) that when they descend as Moses did, just as Jesus will when He returns, in order that they may be “revealed to all of creation”, they shall wear the garment of glory that shone like a seven-fold sun upon Moses, which is the garment that Jesus shall likewise wear when He comes. “For just as lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” — Matthew 24:27.

Which will make that child of God just “as He is”. Like Father like son. Which is to have been raised from initial salvation (salvation of spirit), through discipleship (salvation of soul), through the reward of resurrection power unto a glorified body (salvation of body) from the death of the fallen man back into the life and life abundantly of John 10:10 of a SON of God that once walked with Him before the fall. Just as Jesus Himself, as the Son of Man, after “the fall” (the cross) was raised “to life” (from the tomb) and then “to life abundantly” of a glorified body (upon ascending), and the Father declared, “This is My SON in whom I am well pleased”. That, as our reward, for seeking Him diligently, with all our heart, we may SEE Him as He is, because we ARE as He is.

“You will guide me with Your counsel (discipleship), - to draw near And afterward receive me to glory.” (Restoration) — ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭73:24‬

“For You are my lamp, O LORD; The LORD shall enlighten my darkness.” — ‭‭II Samuel‬ ‭22:29

“And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds” — ‭‭II Samuel‬ ‭23:4‬

“And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the colour of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.” —‭‭ Ezekiel‬ ‭1:26-28‬