The Music to which Christians Dance

If we suffer (with Him), we shall also reign with Him… – 2 Timothy 2:12

With all God’s people their worst grief is sin. I would not care for any sorrow, if I could live without sinning. Oh! if I were rid of the appetites of the flesh and the lusts thereof, and the desires which continually go astray, I would be satisfied to lie in a dungeon and rot there, so as to be delivered from the corruption of sin. Well, brethren, we shall soon attain unto perfection. The body of this death will die with this body. There is no temptation in heaven, for the dog of hell can never cross the stream of death; there are no corruptions there, for they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb; there shall by no means enter into that kingdom anything which defileth. Methinks as I hear the joyous song of the glorified, as I catch floating down from heaven the sound of that music which is like many waters and like the great thunder, and as I hear the harmony of those notes which are sweet as harpers harping with their harps, my soul desireth to stretch her wings, and fly straight to yonder worlds of joy. I know it is so with you, my brethren in the tribulation of Christ. As you wipe the sweat off your brow, is not this the comfort: “…there is rest for the people of God.” As you stand out against temptation and suffer for Christ’s sake, is not this your comfort: ” If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him.” When you are slandered and despised by men, is not this your hope: “He will remember me when He cometh into His kingdom. I shall sit upon His throne, even as He has overcome, and sitteth down upon His Father’s throne.” Oh! yes, this is the music to which Christians dance; this is the wine which maketh glad their hearts; this is the banquet at which they feast. There is another and a better land, and we, though we sleep with the clods of the valley, shall in our flesh see God, when our Redeemer shall stand in the latter days upon the earth. Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainstay of our joy. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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