Comfort One Another
Charles Spurgeon
"The voice of weeping shall be no more heard."
Isaiah 65:19
The
glorified weep no more, for all outward 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 co-exist 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."
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