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Saturday, November 22, 2014

 

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Letters To The Elect Of God
In A Time of Trouble


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THE LIFE TO COME


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It is impossible to conceive the greatness of the reward promised. The terms "eternal life," "the life to come," etc., which express it are familiar enough, but their very familiarity tends to lessen our realization of the blessings they imply. No joys that we have ever experienced will compare with those which everlasting life will bring. Perhaps the most vivid conception that we can get is by contrasting what is with what is to be. We have all felt the ills of mortality sleepless nights, flagging energies, headaches and heart-aches. Most of us, too, have suffered from the curse of death the loss of husband or wife, or father or mother, or a cherished child or friend. We know also from personal experience the incessant turmoil of present existence the struggle with the diabolos, both within and without. Immortality, thanks to God, will mean an end of all this, the unloosing of every burden. The attainment of the reward promised will mean the greatest happiness ever enjoyed (absence of mental and physical pain, life really pleasurable) with a nature capable of reflecting and receiving every divine virtue and good. Then, as a brother once said: "Every thought will be a joy; every moment a pleasure; every breath an inspiration of an ecstasy that will only find expression in praise to Him that sits upon the throne." The bestowal of immortal life will make us part of a company, glorious, mighty, God-like, which will not only be free itself, but able to free others also, from the dreadful ills which now make all creation groan. Who will say that the divine promise is not exceeding great? Shall we not eagerly look and earnestly pray for its manifestation? Is there not something very wrong if we do not? Let us see in "the joy set before us" the consolation of trouble that we might experience now.

 


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