TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.-2 Cor. 4:18 We live in a world where all things are temporal and passing away. Humbling and painful as these truths may sound, it is good for us to all realize them and lay them to heart. Let us settle in our minds, for one thing, that the future happiness of those who are saved is eternal. However little we may understand it, it is something which will have no end; it will never cease, never grow old, never decay, never die. Once landed in paradise, the saints of God shall go out no more. The inheritance is incorruptible, undefiled, and fadeth not away. They shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. Their warfare is accomplished; their fight is over; their work is done. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. I do not wonder that the Apostle Paul adds, “Comfort one another with these words.” [1 Thess. 4:17, 18]. Let us settle it, for another thing, in our minds, that the future misery of those who are finally lost is eternal. This is an awful truth, I am aware, and flesh and blood naturally shrink from the contemplation of it. But I am one of those who believe it to be plainly revealed in Scripture, and I dare not keep it back in the pulpit. It is written, God “will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: but to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.”[Rom. 2:6, 7]. The Lord Jesus Christ is the great Friend to whom we must all look for help, both for time and eternity. The purpose for which the eternal Son of God came into the world can never be declared too fully, or proclaimed too loudly. HE came to give us hope and peace while we live among the “things seen, which are temporal,” and glory and blessedness when we go into the “things unseen, which are eternal”. These mighty privileges our Lord Jesus Christ has purchased for us at the cost of His own precious blood. HE became our Substitute, and bore our sins in His own body on the cross, and then rose again for our justification. Let us settle it firmly in our minds that the only way to pass through “things seen” with comfort, and look forward to “things unseen” without fear, is to have Christ for our Saviour and Friend, to lay hold on Christ by faith, to become one with Christ and Christ in us and while we live in the flesh to live the life of faith in the Son of God. Revival Movement Association.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:38:34 +0000
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