"REMEMBER _THIS_ WORD UNTO THY SERVANT, UPON
WHICH THOU HAST CAUSED ME TO HOPE!"
28TH DAY.
"He is Faithful that Promised."
"This corruptible must put on incorruption."--1 COR. xv. 53.
A Joyful Resurrection.
Marvel of marvels? The sleeping ashes of the sepulchre starting at the
tones of the archangel's trumpet!--the dishonoured dust, rising a
glorified body, like its risen Lord's? At death, the soul's bliss is
perfect in kind; but this bliss is not complete in degree, until
reunited to the tabernacle it has left behind to mingle with the sods of
the valley. But tread lightly on that grave, it contains precious,
because ransomed dust! My body, as well as my spirit, was included in
the redemption price of Calvary; and "them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with Him." Oh! blessed Jubilee-day of creation, when
Christ's "dead men shall arise;"--when, together with His dead body,
they shall come; and the summons shall sound forth, "Awake, and sing, ye
that dwell in the dust!" All the joys of that resurrection morn we
cannot tell; but its chief glory we _do_ know,--"When He shall appear,
we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." Like Him!--My
soul, art thou waiting this manifestation of the sons of God? Like
Him!--Hast thou caught up any faint resemblance to that all-glorious
image? Having this hope in thee, art thou purifying thyself, even as He
is pure? Be much with Jesus now, that thou mayst exult in meeting Him
hereafter. Thus taking Him as thy Guide and Portion in life, thou mayst
lay thee down in thy dark and noisome cell, and look forward with
triumphant hope to the dawn of a resurrection morn, saying, "What time I
awake, I am still with Thee!"
"REMEMBER _THIS_ WORD UNTO THY SERVANT, UPON
WHICH THOU HAST CAUSED ME TO HOPE!"
29TH DAY.
"He is Faithful that Promised."
"There shall be no night there."--REV. xxi. 25.
A Nightless Heaven.
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