May 28 — Morning

Here is a precious truth for you, believer. You may be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for your encouragement take a review of your "calling" and the consequences that flow from it, and especially that blessed result here spoken of. As surely as you art God's child today, so surely shall all your trials soon be at an end, and you shalt be rich to all the intents of bliss. Wait awhile, and that weary head shall wear the crown of glory, and that hand of labour shall grasp the palm-branch of victory. Lament not your troubles, but rather rejoice that before long you will be where "there shall be neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain." The chariots of fire are at your door, and a moment will suffice to bear you to the glorified. The everlasting song is almost on your lip. The portals of heaven stand open for you. Think not that you can fail of entering into rest. If He has called you, nothing can divide you from His love. Distress cannot sever the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link; the hammer of hell cannot break the chain. You art secure; that voice which called you at first, shall call you yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours. Rest assured, the heart of Him who has justified you beats with infinite love towards you. You shalt soon be with the glorified, where your portion is; you art only waiting here to be made meet for the inheritance, and that done, the wings of angels shall waft you far away, to the mount of peace, and joy, and blessedness, where, "Far from a world of grief and sin, With God eternally shut in," you shalt rest for ever and ever.