Intercession: Comforted and Made Ready

Comforted and Made Ready

God comfort His mourners! Let the joy of the departed ones be such joy to us that we shall scarcely know a grief. Make us ready, Lord. Keep us waiting for Thy Coming, or for our ascent unto Thyself. Oh, how short a time will intervene, and we shall see the God with whom we speak to-day! In how few days, or weeks, or months, or years, shall we have crossed the Jordan, and we shall come, each man into his heritage. God grant it be so! Let nobody in this house come short of it through unbelief, but may we all be there when the muster roll is read, to answer to our names. Oh, grant it may be so, Thou blessed Lord of love. Amen.

We are greatly cheered and comforted as we remember, O Saviour, that Thou art the "Resurrection and the Life." United unto Thee we can never utterly die, and if dead, yet shall we live; for it is not possible that there should be dead members of Thy living Body. Thou art not the God of the dead but of the living, and therefore, those that have fallen asleep are yet alive. In the fullness of life they still exist; they all have still their God, and he that hath his God hath bliss. We would come close to Thee, Jesus, crowding away from the death that hovers all around us, coming from the thick darkness of the sepulchre into the brightness of Thy blessed presence; that we may live in the light, and walk in it as Thou art in the light, and have fellowship with Thy Father and with Thee. Oh the joy of being one with Thee Amen.