| Strength and Beauty |
Chapter 22 |
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With such divine words as these on which to hope, why should we ever faint or grow weary, however broken our life, however desolate our home; however we may seem to have failed? No life can sink away when it is held in the clasp of the everlasting arms. No sorrow can strip us bare while we have Christ, and while heaven receives our loved ones. No work for God can ever fail, but every golden seed dropped in the furrow shall yield a harvest.
Then there is a final curing of earth’s weariness for all who know Christ in this world. The promise of rest while it has precious fulfillment in the present life holds its complete fulfillment in reserve, until we reach the heavenly life. There no one ever shall know weariness. Here all growth is toward old age; there all development is toward youth. It is more than the fancy of a mystic that in heaven the oldest angels are the youngest. There will be no sickness there, no sorrow, no trouble. Heaven will be a place of noble activity, every immortal power at work, but there work will not produce weariness. All life will be joy and peace and song, and none shall ever be tired.
“No more going out forever,
No more sorrow, no more tears;
Death and pain can harm us never
Through the glad eternal years.
“In the glory of His presence,
Which now lights the jasper sea,
We will meet the long lost dear one,
Waiting there for you and me.”
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