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Through Baca’s Vale

August 3

Vandaag

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“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
Colossians 3:4

If Christ be your life upon earth; if you have a living faith in His divine Majesty; if any drops of His love have ever bedewed your soul; if any sweet smile has ever comforted your heart, the Apostle would say to all such, “When Christ, Who is your life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory.” No longer pestered by sin and Satan, no longer carrying about a weak, infirm tabernacle, the seat of innumerable evils and maladies, but endued with a soul pure as He is pure, and a spiritual body capable of enjoying the bliss and blessedness of eternity, “then shall you appear,” you suffering saints, who have set your affections on Him Whom you have not seen, and yet in Whom you believe, “then shall you also appear with Him in glory.”

And is not this worth struggling for? Is not this a blessed goal at the end of the race? Is not this a worthy prize to run for? Is not this an ample reward of all your temptations, troubles, griefs and sorrows, to believe, and not in vain, that “when He shall appear,” you “shall appear with Him in glory?” The Lord, if it be His will, lead our souls into these divine and blessed realities! They are the substance of vital godliness; and so far as we feel them, and live under the sweet influences and bedewing operations of the Spirit of grace, these things will prove all our salvation, as they must be, if we be rightly taught, all our desire.

To the reader…

Afflicted soul, who have set your affections on Him Whom you have not seen and yet love: has the race become heavy for you? Do you carry a weak, infirm tabernacle about with you, and are you pestered by sin and Satan, so that at times you hardly know any longer whether Christ is truly your life? Then think of the drops of His love that once bedewed your soul. They were no imagination, but a foretaste.

For when Christ, Who is your life, shall appear, you too shall appear with Him in glory. Is that not worth enduring something for? All your temptations, troubles, griefs, and sorrows will then be over, and you will receive a pure soul and a spiritual body, fit to enjoy eternal bliss. Run on, then, not in your own strength, but living under the sweet influences of the Spirit of grace, Who will bring you to that prize.

With warm regards,
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