Amen, Brother Beacon!!
Light is progressive and in 2020 Jesus wants us to be more intimate with Him than ever before. If you had to compare the relative intimacy between the Father and the Son, we could agree that it is an infinite intimacy. But contemplate this--the redeemed become "the Lamb's wife" (Revelation 19:6) and by an experience of union and communion with God become so identified in thoughts, aims and character as to share the throne of the universe. This is a thought that should stir our hearts and minds with the realization of what God wants to give us, which exceeds our highest expectations. Learn of Christ today in humility; be still and know that He is God--and allow Christ to form His character in you, that you may truly be like unto "the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man," even the Man, Christ Jesus (Genesis 2:22). We receive such an experience of marital intimacy with Jesus Christ by beholding the loveliness of His character and yielding continually the whole heart to Him, so He may make it His throne, as we will soon sit with Him upon His throne (Revelation 3:21).
"However much a shepherd may love his sheep, he loves his sons and daughters more. Jesus is not only our shepherd; He is our 'everlasting Father.' And He says, 'I know Mine own, and Mine own know Me, even as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father.' John 10:14, 15, R. V. What a statement is this!--the only-begotten Son, He who is in the bosom of the Father, He whom God has declared to be "the Man that is My fellow" (Zechariah 13:7),--the communion between Him and the eternal God is taken to represent the communion between Christ and His children on the earth!" {The Desire of Ages, page 483, paragraph 2}
As I contemplate the real value of our lives in light of love that will be experienced eternally, I am also brought to reflect upon these incredible words:
"The value of man is estimated in heaven according to the capacity of the heart to know God. This knowledge is the spring from which flows all power. God created man that every faculty might be the faculty of the divine mind; and He is ever seeking to bring the human mind into association with the divine. He offers us the privilege of co-operation with Christ in revealing His grace to the world, that we may receive increased knowledge of heavenly things." {Christ's Object Lessons, page 354, paragraph 3}
As we come to know God intimately, we will realize the beauty and sublimity of these words: "And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent" (John 17:3). May this be your experience is my earnest prayer.