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Title: Asleep in Jesus
"Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." --1 Thessalonians
4:14
Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. "Today shalt
thou be with me in paradise," is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint.
They "sleep in Jesus," but their souls are before the throne of God, praising
Him day and night in His temple, singing hallelujahs to Him who washed them
from their sins in His blood. The body sleeps in its lonely bed of
earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is this sleep?
The idea connected with sleep is "rest," and that is the thought which the
Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep makes each night a Sabbath for the day.
Sleep shuts fast the door of the soul, and bids all intruders tarry for a
while, that the life within may enter its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn
believer quietly sleeps, as does the weary child when it slumbers on its
mother's breast. Oh! happy they who die in the Lord; they rest from their
labours, and their works do follow them. Their quiet repose shall never be
broken until God shall rouse them to give them their full reward. Guarded by
angel watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the heritors of
glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness of redemption.
What an awaking shall be theirs! They were laid in their last resting
place, weary and worn, but such they shall not rise. They went to their rest
with the furrowed brow, and the wasted features, but they wake up in beauty and
glory. The shrivelled seed, so destitute of form and comeliness, rises from the
dust a beauteous flower. The winter of the grave gives way to the spring of
redemption and the summer of glory. Blessed is death, since it, through the
divine power, disrobes us of this work-day garment, to clothe us with the
wedding garment of incorruption. Blessed are those who "sleep in Jesus."
Title: His Promise
"Lo, I am with you alway." --Matthew 28:20
The Lord Jesus is in the midst of His church; He walketh among the golden
candlesticks; His promise is, "Lo, I am with you alway." He is as surely with
us now as He was with the disciples at the lake, when they saw coals of fire,
and fish laid thereon and bread. Not carnally, but still in real truth, Jesus
is with us. And a blessed truth it is, for where Jesus is, love becomes
inflamed. Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there
is nothing like the presence of Jesus! A glimpse of Him so overcomes us, that
we
are ready to say, "Turn away Thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me."
Even the smell of the aloes, and the myrrh, and the cassia, which drop from His
perfumed garments, causes the sick and the faint to grow strong. Let there be
but a moment's leaning of the head upon that gracious bosom, and a reception of
His divine love into our poor cold hearts, and we are cold no longer, but glow
like seraphs, equal to every labour, and capable of every
suffering.
If we know that Jesus is with us, every power will be developed, and every
grace will be strengthened, and we shall cast ourselves into the Lord's service
with heart, and soul, and strength; therefore is the presence of Christ to be
desired above all things. His presence will be most realized by those who are
most like Him. If you desire to see Christ, you must grow in conformity to Him.
Bring yourself, by the power of the Spirit, into union with Christ's desires,
and motives, and plans of action, and you are likely to be favoured with His
company. Remember His presence may be had. His promise is as true as ever. He
delights to be with us. If He doth not come, it is because we hinder Him by our
indifference. He will reveal Himself to our earnest prayers, and graciously
suffer Himself to be detained by our entreaties, and by our tears, for these
are
the golden chains which bind Jesus to His people.
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