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GOOD LORD'S DAY!

"The things which are not seen."
- 2 Corinthians 4:18

In our Christian pilgrimage it is well, for the most part, to be looking
forward. Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal. Whether it be for
hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the
future must, after all, be the grand object of the eye of faith. Looking
into the future we see sin cast out, the body of sin and death destroyed,
the soul made perfect, and fit to be a partaker of the inheritance of the
saints in light. Looking further yet, the believer's enlightened eye can
see death's river passed, the gloomy stream forded, and the hills of light
attained on which standeth the celestial city; he seeth himself enter
within the pearly gates, hailed as more than conqueror, crowned by the
hand of Christ, embraced in the arms of Jesus, glorified with him, and
made to sit together with him on his throne, even as he has overcome and
has sat down with the Father on his throne. The thought of this future may
well relieve the darkness of the past and the gloom of the present. The
joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. Hush,
hush, my doubts! death is but a narrow stream, and thou shalt soon have
forded it.
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortality, how
endless! Methinks I even now eat of Eshcol's clusters, and sip of the well
which is within the gate.
The road is so, so short! I shall soon be there.

"When the world my heart is rending
With its heaviest storm of care,
My glad thoughts to heaven ascending,
Find a refuge from despair.
Faith's bright vision shall sustain me
Till life's pilgrimage is past;
Fears may vex and troubles pain me,
I shall reach my home at last."

C.H.SPURGEON

SOLI DEO GLORIA!