<p>25:23&nbsp;<em>His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things-&nbsp;</em>The &quot;Truth&quot; we have now (and it is that) is &quot;a very little... a few things&quot;. We mustn't see it as an end in itself. Yet because of our humanity, our limited vision, the way we are locked up in our petty paradigms, we tend to think that the Kingdom will be rather similar to our present experience of &quot;the Truth&quot;. Yet the Lord emphasizes, at least twice, that what we have now is pathetically limited compared to the infinitely greater spiritual vision of the Kingdom. We (personally) will then be made ruler over&nbsp;<em>all&nbsp;</em>that Christ has (Mt. 24:47; the &quot;many things&quot; of Mt. 25:23); and in him are hid&nbsp;<em>all&nbsp;</em>the riches of spiritual wisdom (Col. 2:3).</p><p><em>So I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord-&nbsp;</em>The figure of judgment would suggest a grim faced judge, with all the dignity and soberness of the courtroom, whatever the verdict is. But there are elements of unreality in the pictures of judgment which are put before us in the parables. This judge is emotionally involved in each case (unheard of in a human court); and He is also the advocate and the witness who finds nothing bad to say; and He exalts: &quot;Well done... enter into the joy of your Lord&quot;. The picture is of the happy judge, breaking down in joy at the verdict, inviting the hesitant believer to share his joy in their victory. The picture seems so imaginable; &quot;you, enter into the joy of thy Lord&quot; suggests a reticence, an unbelief, at the outcome. Compare this with the one hour labourers receiving a day's pay (Mt. 20:9), and the faithful almost remonstrating with their Lord that they have not done the things He reminds them of (Mt. 25:38-40). But we will overcome our reticence; we&nbsp;<em>will</em>&nbsp;enter our Lord's joy; for we shall stand before the presence of&nbsp;His glory with exceeding joy (Jude 24). &ldquo;Enter into the joy of your Lord&quot; sounds like the Lord may have to encourage us to get over our weeping, and enter into the sheer joy which He has, that we've finally made it. &quot;<em>Come&hellip;&nbsp;</em>You blessed of my Father Enter the Kingdom&hellip;&quot; sounds like something similar. Now all these things are highly emotional. Yet we will have God's nature. He therefore has the same kind of emotional capabilities as we will have. And, He exercises them right now.</p>