Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday June 29, 2022 |
Morning Time: 2:42 AM PST
"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."
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