| The Best Things in Life |
Chapter 12 |
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The comfort for us in all our sorrows is that nothing has gone wrong, that God’s purpose is going on even in what seems the wrecking of our human hopes. Your friend passed away the other night. You thought he would have been with you for many years to come. You had plans covering a long future of happiness. You were appalled when the doctor said that he could not live till morning. Life to you would be most dreary, lonely, and empty, without this one who had become so dear to you. Is there any comfort to you in this experience? Christ says, “Let not you heart be troubled.” There is no reason why you should be troubled. If you could see all things as God sees them, you would not be dismayed. If the disciples had known just what the death of their Master would mean – to him, to them, to the divine glory, to the world, they would not have been troubled. Death to your friend was the completion of the earthly portion of his life; the passing of the spirit to the heavenly home, to enter anew into the service of the Master. Is there no comfort in this? Is there no comfort in the truth of immortality, that he who liveth and believeth on Christ shall never die? Is there no comfort in knowing that your friend who has passed from the earthly home is in the Father’s house?
We need not be anxious about the loved one we have sent out of our home into the Father’s house. The baby is safer there than ever it could have been in the human mother’s arms.
“Another lamb, O Lamb of God, behold
Within this quiet fold,
Among they Father’s sheep
I lay to sleep!
A heart that never for a night did rest
Beyond its mother’s breast.
Lord, keep it close to thee,
Lest waking it should cry and pine for me!”
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