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Devotional: November 10th

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The righteous shall go away into life eternal. Matthew 25:46. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 2 Corinthians 4:17. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:2. God will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who, by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life. Romans 2:6-7.

As "eternity" is a word of terror to the unbelieving and ungodly, the lukewarm and faithless, so it is a word of joy to the godly, righteous and pardoned, as long as they remain in grace arid preserve the gems of faith, love and patience. When the love of your Savior, the eternal joy and crown which He has prepared for you yonder, are so attractive to you that because of these you forget sin, the world and yourself, then you need not think of judgment and hell, eternal punishment and torment. Rejoice in the glory of the children of God. Live in heaven, to which you are called. Let your heart always be filled with the joy which the Lord even here bestows upon His own as a foretaste. If this, however, will not work upon your heart, if it should make you drowsy and secure, then let the thought of the opposite, the unhappy eternal state, of the loss of the presence of God, which shall be the lot of all who are unfaithful, secure and lukewarm, arouse you and renew your delight in an earnest consideration of heaven and the blessed eternal estate. But if heaven be in your heart, none can frighten you with hell. If hell be in your heart, then hasten out of it while there is yet time and seek in Christ, the Redeemer from death and hell, grace and pardon and a living hope of heirship and sonship of God, that you may rejoice when you think of eternity. For he who thinks to help himself by banishing all thoughts of eternity, and who will not think of the blessed eternal state nor of the unhappy eternal state, is, indeed, not much helped thereby. By forgetting eternity you can neither quench hell nor win heaven. Eternity remains eternity, and you must enter into it whether you want to think of it or not.

The day is surely drawing near.

When God’s Son, the Anointed,

Shall with great majesty appear.

As Judge of all appointed.

All mirth and laughter then shall cease.

When raging flames on flames increase.

As the apostle teacheth.

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