Numerous
are the sources of sorrow
here on earth but God will dry them all up
in Heaven. There will be
no mourning Christian
to drop tears there,
"for all sorrow and sighing
shall flee away!"
There is nothing
in that happy residence
to distress or annoy. Jeremiah
will utter
no plaintive language there.
Transgressors
will grieve the holy
no more.
Bartimaeus
is the poor blind beggar
no more.
Lazarus's sores
have been replaced
by immortal beauty.
The weeping widow
is no longer
crushed to the dust
by the heavy hand of poverty.
The orphan child
is no longer
forsaken and homeless.
Pinching poverty
and wasting disease
are unknown.
The distressing complaint
will never accost the ear,
"I am sick!"
The sting of death
and the terrors of the grave
will never
present themselves there.
There are no graves
in the land of eternal life.
There is no death
of friends there.
Martha and Mary
go to no beloved brother's grave
to weep.
Yonder, there is no deceitful heart,
no secret foe,
no fascinating world,
no artful Satan! The former things
have passed away,
and the era of immortality
has arrived. God shall give them everything
calculated to
secure, continue, and increase
their happiness.
"He will lead them
to springs of living water,"
which shall never be exhausted.
A spring is termed living water,
because constantly bubbling up,
and running on.
These "springs of living water"
indicate
endless sources of happiness,
which Christ will supply
to His redeemed people
from His own infinite
plenitude.
These eternal fountains
will make an infinite variety
for the enjoyments
of the blessed.
There will be no sameness,
and therefore no weariness
to the spirit.
Every moment will open
a new source of pleasure.
And as God is infinite,
so His attributes are infinite,
and throughout infinity
more and more of those attributes
will be unveiled and the discovery of each
will be a new fountain
of enjoyment.
These sources will be ever opening through all eternity and yet, through all eternity,
there will still remain
in the absolute perfections
of the Godhead,
an infinity of them
still to be opened!
[William Nicholson]
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Revelation 7:17 ... For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Psalm 36:9 ... For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Philippians 1:23 ... For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: ❤
