EC 14:7{We should have said, "At evening time it shall be shadow"; God says. "At evening time it shall be light.”
We are not to look for a very dismal afternoon of life with only some final sunset-glow, for He says it "shineth more and more unto the perfect day"; and "more and more" leaves no dark intervals; we are to expect a continual brightening path. "The future is one vista of brightness and blessedness" to those who are willing only "to walk in the light." Just think, when you are seven, or ten, or twenty years older, that will only mean seven or ten or twenty years' more experience of His love and faithfulness, more light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ; and still the "more and more unto the perfect day," will be opening out before us! We are "confident of this very thing"!
Fear not the westering shadows, O children of the day!
For brighter still and brighter shall be your homeward way.
Resplendent as the morning, with fuller glow and power,
And clearer than the noonday, shall be your sunset hour.