This Morning’s Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon
“So shall we ever be with the Lord.”
~ 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ~
Even the sweetest visits from Christ, how short they are and how transitory! One moment our eyes see Him, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, but again a little time and we do not see Him, for our beloved withdraws Himself from us; like a roe or a young hart He leaps over the mountains of division; He is gone to the land of spices, and feeds no more among the lilies.
With a sense of pardoned sin,
He to-morrow may distress us,
Make us feel the plague within.”Oh, how sweet the prospect of the time when we shall not behold Him at a distance, but see Him face to face: when He shall not be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night, but shall eternally enfold us in the bosom of His glory. We shall not see Him for a little season, but
Shall o’er our Saviour’s beauties rove;
And myriad ages we’ll adore,
The wonders of His love.”In heaven there shall be no interruptions from care or sin; no weeping shall dim
