WHEN WILL THE
MORNING COME?
As I sat there at my desk recently on a lovely summer morning, I wondered what that day would hold. Oh, I had my agenda for that day which included a graveside service for a precious sister in the Lord. And I asked the Lord “Who can I comfort in Your Name this day?” I realized that there would be grieving hearts there in that cemetery that day. And indeed, as I am now writing this, there was much pain that day, as the daughter of the dear lady who had passed also was grieving for her husband who passed on just four days after her mother. So the pain is great in so many lives, so much pain and sorrow, that I have included a piece from Charles F. Spurgeon, from his devotional “Day and Night.”
But watchman, when comes the morning? The Bridegroom tarries! Are there no signs of His coming forth as the Sun of Righteousness? Has not the Morning Star arisen as the pledge of day? When will the day dawn and shadows flee away?
Oh, Jesus, if Thou
come not in person to Thy Church this day, yet come in Spirit to my sighing
heart and make it sing for joy!
Now all the earth
is bright and glad with fresh; but all my heart is cold and dark and sad. “Sun of the Soul; let me behold the dawn!
I know that there are many of you out there who cry like
Job of old: “So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are
appointed to me. When I lie down, I say,
‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’
And I am full of tossing to and from unto the dawning of the day” Job
7:3-4.
Your pain is so great you wish it was night and you could
sleep, then you toss and turn and wish it was morning.
But morning is coming, my friends. Job looked down through the centuries of time
and saw his Redeemer, and he somehow knew that someday he would see Him face to
face.
“For I know that
my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the
earth: and though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes
shall behold, and no another; though my reins be consumed within me” Job
19:25-27.
Oh, what precious promises and prophecy are found in God’s
Word! Our Redeemer has come and He did
indeed stand upon this earth, went to the cross, bore our sins and paid the
price for our salvation. Praise the
Lord! Do you know Jesus as your own
personal Savior? Make Him yours today,
and be ready.
Now He sits enthroned in glory and lives within our
hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit and we have the promise of His soon
return and the dead in Christ shall rise to meet Him in the air, along with
those who remain. These bodies will be
changed instantly and we will at last see Him Face to Face!
Behold, I shew you
a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” I Corinthians
15:51-52.
Yes, the morning is coming, and there will be no more
sighing hearts, for all of us will be singing for joy in His presence! And our hearts will no longer become cold,
dark and sad, because the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing in His
wings: “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with
healing in his wings. And you will go
free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture” Malachi 4:2.
These are the last verses in the Old Testament and are
filled with hope. Regardless of how your
life looks right now or how dark your night, God controls the future. We who have loved and served God look forward
to a joyful celebration. This hope for
the future is ours when we trust God with our lives. And I truly believe His coming is very near,
and that day will at last dawn upon us.
And we can pray with Charles Spurgeon:
“Oh quickly come, according to
Thy Word! Let the whole earth be filled
with His glory! Amen……….
Come, Lord Jesus Come!
Pastor Sharon
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