"He is Faithful that Promised."
"There shall be no night there."--REV. xxi. 25.
A Nightless Heaven.
My soul! is it night with thee here? Art thou wearied with these
midnight tossings on life's tumultuous sea? Be still! the day is
breaking! soon shall thy Lord appear. "His going forth is prepared as
the morning." That glorious appearing shall disperse every cloud, and
usher in an eternal noontide which knows no twilight. "Thy sun shall no
more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall
be thine everlasting light." Everlasting light! Wondrous secret of a
nightless world!--the glories of a present God!--the everlasting light
of the Three in One, quenching the radiance of all created
orbs--superseding all material luminaries. "My soul waiteth for the Lord
more than they that watch for the morning!" The haven is nearing--star
after star is quenched in more glorious effulgence--every bound over
these dark waves is bringing thee nearer the eternal shore. Wilt thou
not, then, humbly and patiently endure "weeping for the night," in the
prospect of the "joy that cometh in the morning?" Strange realities! a
world without night--a firmament without a sun; and, greater wonder
still, _thyself_ in this world,--a joyful denizen of this nightless,
sinless, sorrowless, tearless Heaven!--basking underneath the Fountain
of uncreated light! No exhaustion of glorified body and spirit to
require repose; no lassitude or weariness to suspend the ever-deepening
song: "They _rest not_!"
"REMEMBER _THIS_ WORD UNTO THY SERVANT, UPON
WHICH THOU HAST CAUSED ME TO HOPE!"