These eternal fountains!
(William Nicholson, 1862)
will be their Shepherd.
HE will lead them to springs of living water.
And GOD will wipe away every tear from
their eyes!" Revelation 7:17
from their eyes!"
Numerous are the sources
of sorrow here on earth--
but GOD will dry them all up
in Heaven. There will be no mourning
Christian to drop tears there, "for all
sorrow and sighing shall flee away!"
There is nothing in that happy
residence to distress or annoy.
Jeremiah will utter no plaintive language there.
Transgressors will grieve the holy no more.
Bartimeus is the poor blind beggar no more.
Lazarus's sores have been replaced
by immortal beauty.
The weeping widow is no longer crushed
to the dust by the heavy hand of poverty.
The orphan child is no longer forsaken and homeless.
Pinching poverty and wasting disease are unknown.
The distressing complaint will never
accost the ear, "I am sick!"
The sting of death and the terrors of the grave
will never present themselves there.
There are no graves in the land of eternal life.
There is no death of friends there.
Martha and Mary go to no beloved
brother's grave to weep.
Yonder, there is . . .
no deceitful heart,
no secret foe,
no fascinating world,
no artful satan!
The former things have passed away,
and the era of immortality has arrived.
GOD shall give them everything
calculated to secure, continue, and
increase their happiness.
of living water," (Revelation 7:17 b)
which shall never be exhausted.
A spring is termed living water,
because constantly bubbling up,
and running on. These "springs of
living water" indicate endless sources
of happiness, which CHRIST will supply
to HIS redeemed people from HIS own
infinite plenitude.
These eternal fountains will make
an infinite variety for the enjoyments
of the blessed. There will be no sameness,
and therefore no weariness to the spirit.
Every moment will open a new source
of pleasure. And as GOD is infinite,
so HIS attributes are infinite, and
throughout infinity more and
more of those attributes
will be unveiled--
and the discovery of each
will be a new fountain of enjoyment.
These sources will be ever-
opening through all eternity--
and yet, through all eternity,
there will still remain,
in the absolute perfections
of the Godhead, an infinity
of them still to be opened!
an infinite variety for the enjoyments
of the blessed. There will be no sameness,
and therefore no weariness to the spirit.
Every moment will open a new source
of pleasure. And as GOD is infinite,
so HIS attributes are infinite, and
throughout infinity more and
more of those attributes
will be unveiled--
and the discovery of each
will be a new fountain of enjoyment.
These sources will be ever-
opening through all eternity--
and yet, through all eternity,
there will still remain,
in the absolute perfections
of the Godhead, an infinity
of them still to be opened!
Such bliss is enough to make the Christian
say,
which is better by far!" 1:23
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"The Second Coming of Christ!" Superb.
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