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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
There are homes for the pilgrims of earth. There are robes for
the righteous, with crowns of glory and palms of victory. All that
has perplexed us in the providences of God will in the world to
come be made plain. The things hard to be understood will then find
explanation. The mysteries of grace will unfold before us. Where
our finite minds discovered only confusion and broken promises, we
shall see the most perfect and beautiful harmony. We shall know
that infinite love ordered the experiences that seemed most trying.
As we realize the tender care of Him who makes all things work
together for our good, we shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and full
of glory.
Pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of heaven. In the home of
the redeemed there will be no tears, no funeral trains, no badges of
mourning. “The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.”
Isaiah 33:24
. One rich
tide of happiness will flow and deepen as eternity rolls on.
We are still amidst the shadows and turmoil of earthly activities.
Let us consider most earnestly the blessed hereafter. Let our faith
pierce through every cloud of darkness and behold Him who died
for the sins of the world. He has opened the gates of paradise to all
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who receive and believe on Him. To them He gives power to become
the sons and daughters of God. Let the afflictions which pain us so
grievously become instructive lessons, teaching us to press forward
toward the mark of the prize of our high calling in Christ. Let us be
encouraged by the thought that the Lord is soon to come. Let this
hope gladden our hearts. “Yet a little while, and He that shall come
will come, and will not tarry.”
Hebrews 10:37
. Blessed are those
servants who, when their Lord comes, shall be found watching.
We are homeward bound. He who loved us so much as to die
for us hath builded for us a city. The New Jerusalem is our place of
rest. There will be no sadness in the city of God. No wail of sorrow,
no dirge of crushed hopes and buried affections, will evermore be
heard. Soon the garments of heaviness will be changed for the
wedding garment. Soon we shall witness the coronation of our King.
Those whose lives have been hidden with Christ, those who on this
earth have fought the good fight of faith, will shine forth with the
Redeemer’s glory in the kingdom of God.