Jeremiah

All was reality with Jeremiah. The present corruption was a reality to him, for he rebuked it, and mourned over it. The approaching judgment was a reality to him, for he wept at the thought of it and deprecated it. The final glory was a reality to him, for he laid out his money upon it. He had occasional refreshing of spirit from the glory. His sleep and the dreams that accompanied it, in chapter 31, were ''sweet unto him." it was a kind of moment in the "holy mount" to him—a transfiguration in spirit—for a light for the kingdom visited his soul there. He had revelations, too, of the "Lord our Righteousness." and could speak and write of Him.
Not only as occasionally refreshed in spirit, and thus gifted to write and speak, but he was a suffering witness against "this present world" and he laid not his money on "the world to come." It was this that completed his character which would have been poor and wanting without it We may speak of Christ, and leach about the kingdom, but to witness for Him against a rejecting world, and to be ''rich toward God'' in the hope of His kingdom this is to fill out and manic our character as saints.