GOD’S WORD FOR SEPTEMBER 14~ ~ Psalm 5;11 ~ ~ “Let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.”

From the book, “We Shall See God” with sermons from Charles H. Spurgeon and comments by Randy Alcorn.

“Longing for Heaven’s Rest”

ALCORN:

If you’ve ever felt as if you were made for more than what this world has to offer, you’re right. Even the best moments from our past and our present are merely hints of the future God has in store for those who have chosen to truly believe in Him.

SPURGEON:

The Christian has some rest here, but nothing compared with the rest which is to come (Hebrews 4:9

“There remains, therefore, a rest for the people of God.”).

There is the rest of faith which a Christian enjoys—a sweet rest. Many of us have known it. We have known what it is, when the billows of trouble have run high, to hide ourselves in the breast of Christ and feel secure. We have cast our anchor deep into the rocks of God’s praise, we have gone to sleep in our chamber and have not feared the tempest, we have looked at tribulation and have smiled at it, we have looked at death himself and laughed him to scorn.

In the midst of defamation, reproach, slander and contempt, we have said, “I shall not be moved, for God is on my side.” But the rest up there is better still—more unruffled, more sweet, more perfectly calm, more enduring, and more lasting than even the rest of faith.

The Christian sometimes has the blessed rest of communion. There are happy moments when he puts his head on the Savior’s breast—when, like John, he feels that he is close to the Savior’s heart, and there he sleeps. God “gives to his beloved sleep”(Psalm 127:2)–not the sleep of unconsciousness, but the sleep of joy.

Happy, happy, happy are the dreams we have had on the couch of communion! Blessed have been the times when, like the spouse in Solomon’s song, we could say of Christ, “His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!” (Song of Solomon 2:6)

When we shall have plunged into a very bath of joy, we shall have found the delights even of Communion on earth to have been but the dipping of the finger in the cup, but the dipping of the bread in the dish, whereas heaven itself shall be the participation of the whole of the joy and not the mere foretaste of it.

Here we sometimes enter into the doorway of happiness; there we shall go into the presence chamber of the King!!! Here we look over the hedge and see the flowers in heaven’s garden; there we shall walk between the flower beds of delight. We shall pluck fresh flowers at each step.

Here we just look and see the sunlight of heaven in the distance, like the lambs of the thousand-gated cities shining far away. There we shall see them in all their blaze of splendor. Here we listen to the whisperings of heaven’s melody, borne by winds from afar. But there, entranced amid the grand melodies of the blessed, we shall join in the everlasting hallelujah to the great Messiah, the God, the Great I Am!!!!!

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Song of Solomon 2:12

The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people went up after him; and the people played the flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth seemed to split with their sound.

Isaiah 12:3

Therefore with joy you will draw water From the wells of salvation.

But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name Be joyful in You.

You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore

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