After a little while - you will see me! John 16:17
Oh the infinite sweep of that glorious transition! A few years here in a poor dwelling, whose rent it is hard to pay - and then infinite ages in the palace of the King of kings! Here a scanty table and course clothing - and yonder a robe of resplendent light at the marriage supper of the Lamb! Let this blissful thought put new courage into your soul, and fresh sunshine into your countenance!
That disease which no earthly physician can cure - will soon be cured by your Divine Physician, who by the touch of His messenger death, will cure you in an instant, and bring you into the perfect health of Heaven! You will exchange this weary bed of pain - for that crystal air in which none shall ever say, "I am sick;" neither shall there be any more pain.
Not only to the sick and to the poverty - stricken children of God, do these tender words of our Redeemer bring solace. Let these words bring a healing balm to hearts that are smarting under unkindness, or wounded by neglect, or pining under privations, or bleeding under sharp bereavements. I offer them as a sedative to all sorrows - and a solace under all sharp afflictions. "After a little while - you will see Me!" The sight of Him shall wipe out all the memories of the darkest hours through which you made your way through this wilderness world - to mansions of glory!
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