Only Christ's People Can Approach the Grave with Joy and Delight

[KenH]

We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.—2 Corinthians 5:1.

Vain and trifling is all this perishing world has to offer, compared with the glory which shall shortly be revealed in us; yea, not to be set in competition with the grace that is NOW upon us. And what can deprive such an heir of his inheritance? Shall sin? No; that is fully atoned by the blood of Jesus. Shall the world? No; he hath victory over that, by the faith of Jesus. Shall Satan? No; the "God of peace will bruise Satan under his feet shortly."—Romans 16:20. Shall the corruptions of his nature and the workings of unbelief? These may distress and make him groan; may deject with doubts; but shall not disinherit. For unbelief also is included in that precious promise, "Sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are under grace."—Romans 6:14. And all such are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation."

- excerpt from William Mason's A Spiritual Treasury for the Children of God, Volume 1, September 11

 

[JPPT1974]

Praying for those to come to believe in Christ and when they do, they have their names in the Book of Life and in the knowing Jesus will welcome them in the streets of gold and walls of Jasper!