Spurgeon: August AM
* 08/23/AM
"The voice of weeping shall be no more heard."
--Isaiah 65:19
The glorified weep no more, for all outward a causes of
grief are gone . There are no broken friendships, nor blighted
prospects in heaven. Poverty, famine, peril, persecution, and
slander, are unknown there. No pain distresses, no thought of
death or bereavement saddens. They weep no more, for they are
perfectly sanctified . No "evil heart of unbelief" prompts them
to depart from the living God; they are without fault before His
throne, and are fully conformed to His image. Well may they
cease to mourn who have ceased to sin. They weep no more,
because all fear of change is past . They know that they are
eternally secure. Sin is shut out, and they are shut in. They
dwell within a city which shall never be stormed; they bask in a
sun which shall never set; they drink of a river which shall
never dry; they pluck fruit from a tree which shall never
wither. Countless cycles may revolve, but eternity shall not be
exhausted, and while eternity endures, their immortality and
blessedness shall co-exist with it. They are for ever with the
Lord. They weep no more, because every desire is fulfilled .
They cannot wish for anything which they have not in possession.
Eye and ear, heart and hand, judgment, imagination, hope,
desire, will, all the faculties, are completely satisfied; and
imperfect as our present ideas are of the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him, yet we know enough, by the
revelation of the Spirit, that the saints above are supremely
blessed. The joy of Christ, which is an infinite fulness of
delight, is in them. They bathe themselves in the bottomless,
shoreless sea of infinite beatitude. That same joyful rest
remains for us. It may not be far distant. Ere long the weeping
willow shall be exchanged for the palm-branch of victory, and
sorrow's dewdrops will be transformed into the pearls of
everlasting bliss. "Wherefore comfort one another with these
words."