It
is true that we shall never get it quiet right until the earth is
made anew. After the April showers comes the blooming flowers of May.
We see here only the shadow of the throne, but there we shall see it
absolutely. Here we are still under the tutelage of faith, there we
shall see with our own eyes.
Saints
will cry here, but there, no weeping shall ever fall on nature's ears.
It is a paradise that our weary feet is voyaging to, but here we must
bear a little while with the thorns that pricks our pilgrim's feet. It is true that men here are
more ready to conceal their lust, but there, there shall be nothing
to confess.
So
while we live here in great anticipation of our future glory, we must
be full of love and honesty. We must be ready to reveal our defeats
than to hide our shame. We must be ready to mourn for our speck than
to make known by gossip the huge log in our brother's eyes. We must be ready to have a
tremendous patience with the church, for you see, that whilst here on
foreign shores, we shall never get it perfectly right. As God has
abundant grace for us, we must have grace for the church. She is the darling Jesus died for and we must die for her too.
Let
not the darkness of the world kill your spirit, but rather create a
light through it, a light of path for it through the light that
shines in you. Today you may come across hopelessness, but you have
hope. You may shake hands with depression, but you have joy. You may
sit next to powerlessness, but you have power. You may work with
impurity, but you have purity. You may hear about slavery, but you
have freedom. And of course you know that all these good things which
the world lacks belongs to Christ, and because you are in him, he
has given them to you.
O
we shall never get it quiet right, but we can do a lot of good.
K.Oni
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