| J.R. Miller D.D. | Page 17 |
“There come new cares and sorrows
Every year.
“The ghosts of dead loves haunt us,
The ghosts of changed friends taunt us.
And disappointments daunt us
Every year.
“Too true Life’s shores are shifting
Every year;
And we are seaward drifting
Every year;
“Old places changing fret us,
The living more forget us,
There are fewer to regret us
Every year.
“But the truer life draws nigher
Every year;
And its morning star climbs higher
Every year;
“Earth’s hold on us grows slighter,
And the heavy burthen lighter,
And the dawn immortal brighter,
Every year.”
The ending of the story of this life of blessedness is not in this world; it is in heaven. Whether David’s thought reached over into the eternal home, we cannot surely tell. The truth of immortality was not understood then as it is now. We have fuller revelation, and we know that the believer shall indeed dwell in the house of the Lord forever. We have the finishing of the picture in the book of The Revelation. “Therefore are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat: for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
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