OUR FINAL
JOURNEY
Micah 2:10
"Arise and go" David Jones with
excerpts from A.B.
As many of
you know the mother of our dear brother
The
following devotional is for us to use as we encourage our loved ones during
these times, especially those who are believers in God.
The hour is
approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to all, "Arise,
and leave the home in which you lived, from the city in which you have done
your business, from your family, from your friends. Arise, and take your final
journey."
And what do
we know of the journey? And what do we know of the country to which we are
going? We have read a little about it, and part has been revealed to us by the
Spirit; but how little do we know of the realms of the future! We know that
there is a black and stormy river called Death. God bids us cross it, promising
to be with us.
And after
death, what comes? What wonder-world will open upon our astonished sight? What
scene of glory will be unfolded to our view? No traveler has ever returned to
tell. But we know enough of the heavenly land to make us welcome our summons
there with joy and gladness.
The journey
of death may be dark, but we may face it fearlessly, knowing that God is with
us as we walk through the gloomy valley, and therefore we need fear no evil. We
shall be departing from all we have known and loved here, but we shall be going
to our Father's house--to our Father's home, where Jesus is--to that royal
"city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God."1 This
will be our last relocation, to live forever with Him we love, in the midst of
His people, in the presence of God.
Christian,
meditate much on heaven; it will help you to press on and to forget the
difficulty of the journey. This vale of tears is but the pathway to the better
country: This world of woe is but the stepping-stone to a world of bliss.
Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine,
For Thy bright courts on high;
Then bid our spirits rise, and join
The chorus of the sky.
It was said
of Abraham in Hebrews 11:10 "for
he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is
God".