Oftentimes your friends misinterpret and misconstrue your actions. There you will know and be known. Much of our misunderstanding here is due to the fact that we have a lack of knowledge: "Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is per fect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away" (I Cor. 13:8-10). Then we have the blessed knowledge that we will know our loved ones. Not even the tone and timbre of their voice will be altered. Isn't that what happened to Mary when in the cold grey dawn of the morning she saw the shadow of a man whom she thought was the keeper or gardener? Then the Risen Christ said, "Mary," and she recognized His voice though she could not see Him for it was still too dark for her to see her Lord. Many folk have a doubt lurking in their minds to mar their thinking about heaven. They are not sure they will know their loved ones. The old Welsh min ister settled that for his wife when she, in some tone of doubt said: "John, do you think that you and I will know each other in heaven?" To which he replied: "To be sure Maggie, and do you think we will be greater fools there than we are here?" My friends, your love and memory will be perfect there for there will be no sin to mar them. Heaven is a cosmopolitan place for we see in He brews 12:22-24, "But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of, the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus u
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