Jan
30
2010
The Best Is Yet To Come
As I prepare to preach my own father’s funeral today at 3 pm (a surreal and unique privilege–please pray for me), I was helped by these words from Charles Spurgeon in a blog post by my friend Justin entitled “Here and There“:
Charles Spurgeon on life “here” vs. what life will be like “there”:
Here, my best joys bear “mortal” on their brow;
My fair flowers fade;
my dainty cups are drained to dregs;
my sweetest birds fall before Death’s arrows;
my most pleasant days are shadowed into nights;
and the flood tides of my bliss subside into ebbs of sorrow.
“But there,” he writes, “everything is immortal”:
The harp remains in tune,
the crown unfading,
the eye undimmed,
the voice unfaltering,
the heart unwavering;
and the immortal being is wholly absorbed in infinite delight.
Source: Morning, January 18