There remai neth therefore a rest to the people of God (Hab. 4:9). He shall find freedom from faults: (He) is able to present us faultless be- fore the presence of His glory with exceeding joy (Jude 24). They shall walk with me in white (Rev. 3:4). He shall have a glorious body: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like His glorious body (Phil. 3:21). We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed (1 Cor. 15:51). Then shall thè righteous shine forth as the sun (Matt. 13:43, 17:2). He shall see the Lord: We shall see Him as He is (1 Jno. 3:2). Father I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that they may behold my glory (Jno. 17:24), They shall see His Face (Rev. 22:4). They shall have a mansion: In my Father's house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you; I go to prepare a place for you (Jno. 14:2). They shall have a crown: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them that love His appearing (2 Tim, 4:8). He shall be confessed before angels: Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God (Luke 12:8). He shall have wonderful knowledge: For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known (1 Cor. 13:12). He shall be forever with His Lord: So shall we ever be with the Lord (1 Thess. 4:17). I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever (Ps. 23:6). Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out (Rev. 3:12), He shall never want for food and comfort: They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat (Rev. 7:16). And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain (Rev. 12:4). i As they say at the Fisherman's Club, "Praise the Lo r d !"
true that so long as we have the prin- ciples and precepts of Christian prac- tice we need not trouble ourselves about the rest, our whole hope and strength are fixed on and derived from Him as the Sovereign God and the very Sub- stance and Fount of salvation. Simeon was right when looking up from the babe in his arms he said, "Now, O Lord, let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have beheld thy Salva- tion" (Luke 2:29). Our salvation is not in ourselves, it is in Him. " T he Lord is my strength and my salvation'' (Psa. 118:14). Therefore Jesus said, " I am the way, the truth, and the life, the door, the resurrection," etc. (Jno. 14:6, 10:7, 11:25). Therefore, also, He is our peace, our life, our hope, our bread and our drink (Eph. 2:14; Col. 3:4, 1:27; Jno. 6:36, 6:55. All schemes of salvation may be tested by this: Is the personal Christ trusted and preached as Salvation. His will, His work saves individual souls, setting them free as by a sovereign and official stroke of an executive pen dipped in His blood; or as one who lifts them from the quicksands of sin in which they sank the more helpless in all their struggles; or as one snatch- ing them from the flames as brands from the burning. We are not as drowning men swimming for the shore; nor as strugglers with billows supported by the buoying help of a life preserver, but as these utterly exhausted and help- less, unresistingly and obediently cling- ing to a strong and infallible life-saver. Our watchword is, He is become my Sal- vation! Jesus said, " I will raise him up; I will in no wise cast out," "None shall be able to pluck out of My hand," " Fa t h er I will that they may see my glory" (Jno. 6:40, 6:37, 10:28, 17:24). " And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to loose the seals thereof: for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God a kingdom and priests: and we shall reign on the e a r t h" (Rev. 5:9, 10)- IIL THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING TOR THE CHRISTIAN. He shall find rest from his troubles: And to you who are troubled . . . rest when the Lord Jesus shall be re- vealed from heaven (2 Thess. 1:7).
I refuse to be disappointed; I will only praise.—Hannington.
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