Under the Parsonage Roof by Althea S. Miller SHINING SHADOW
A H s Mother stood beside the still form of her beloved first bom her heart was suddenly overwhelmed w ith an intense sense of loss. “Dear Father, you’ve taken my boy away in the flower of his young manhood. Why? Forgive me, Lord. I do not mean to question your wisdom. ‘It is not mine to question the judgments of my Lord; It is but mine to follow the leading of His Word.’ Thank you, Lord, for the privilege of having been the mother of a son like Bobby. From a little child he loved you and seemed destined for an unusual testimony. He bore that testimony even in the shadow of death. It was a shining shadow, Father. Thank you for that com fort.” It seemed as Mother stood there that the years rolled back and she remembered the first Bible verse Bob memorized at the age of four in a vacation Bible school in California. He came home and solemnly an nounced, “God made everything beau tiful” (Eccl. 3 :1 1 ). Daddy and Mother w ill never forget how he pursed those baby lips as he struggled to say “bee- oo-tiful.” Mother was sure that in his span of 20 years Bobby tried to keep everything God made beautiful. From never having known a sick day in his life until the age of 16, God crowded a lifetime of soul win ning and service into Bob’s experience during the four years in which the disease ravaged his body. “O the depth of the riches both of the wis dom and knowledge of God! how un searchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! . . . For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen” (Rom. 11:33, 36). “If my precious son’s illness, suffering and death w ill redound to your glory, and I believe these w ill, I w ill not wonder at the work of your hand. Thank you for that knowledge. “And as I sing, ‘Thine when temp tations press me, Thine midst the soul’s deep calm, Thine when the tears run down like rain, Thine when I sing my psalm,’ you w ill understand my tears. But we sorrow not as those who have no hope. W e shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord and so shall we ever be with the Lord [1 Thes. 4:13, 17], Thank you, Lord, for that hope. ‘Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus.’ ”
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