"The voice
of weeping shall be no more heard."
Isaiah 65:19
Isaiah 65:19
The
glorified weep no more, for all outward a causes of grief are
gone. There are no broken
friendships, nor blighted prospects in heaven. Poverty, famine, peril,
persecution, and slander, are unknown there. No pain distresses, no thought of
death or bereavement saddens. They weep no more, for they
are perfectly sanctified.
No "evil heart of unbelief" prompts them to depart from the living
God; they are without fault before His throne, and are fully conformed to His
image.
Well
may they cease to mourn who have ceased to sin. They weep no more, because all
fear of change is past.
They know that they are eternally secure. Sin is shut out, and they are shut
in. They dwell within a city which shall never be stormed; they bask in a sun
which shall never set; they drink of a river which shall never dry; they pluck
fruit from a tree which shall never wither.
Countless
cycles may revolve, but eternity shall not be exhausted, and while eternity
endures, their immortality and blessedness shall coexist with it. They are forever
with the Lord. They weep no more, because every desire is fulfilled. They cannot wish for anything which
they have not in possession. Eye and ear, heart and hand, judgment,
imagination, hope, desire, will, all the faculties, are completely satisfied;
and imperfect as our present ideas are of the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him, yet we know enough, by the revelation of the Spirit,
that the saints above are supremely blessed. The joy of Christ, which is an
infinite fullness of delight, is in them. They bathe themselves in the
bottomless, shoreless sea of infinite beatitude.
That
same joyful rest remains for us. It may not be far distant. Ere long the
weeping willow shall be exchanged for the palm branch of victory, and sorrow's
dewdrops will be transformed into the pearls of everlasting bliss.
"Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
God
bless,
David
L. Wynn, Pastor
Pauline
B. Grant CME Church
“This
is the Potter’s House”
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