That God has determined the time when your affliction shall end, as well as the time when it began. Thirty-eight years were appointed the sick man at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:5.) Twelve years to the woman who was suffering from bleeding (Matt 9:20.) Three months to Moses (Exod 2:2.) Ten days tribulation to the angel of the Church at Smyrna (Rev 2:10.) Three days plague to David (2 Sam 24:13.) The time of our trouble, says Christ, is but a little while (John 16:16.) Gods anger lasts but a moment, says David (Psalm 30.) A little season, says the Lord (Rev 6:11;) and therefore calls all the time of our pain but the hour of sorrow (John 16:21.) David, for the swiftness of it, compares our present trouble to a brook (Psalm 110:7). Compare the longest misery that man endures in this life, to the eternity of heavenly joys; and they will appear to be nothing! For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. (Romans 8:18) And as the sight of a son safely born, makes the mother forget all her former pain (John 16:21), so the sight of Christ in heaven, who was born for you, will make all these pangs of death to be quite forgotten, as if they had never been. Like Stephen, who, as soon as he saw Christ, forgot his own wounds, with the horror of the grave, and terror of the stones, and sweetly yielded his soul into the hands of his Savior (Acts 7.) Forget your own pain, think of Christs wounds. Be faithful unto death, and he will give you the crown of eternal life (Rev 2:10.)
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 01:10:37 +0000
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