Leigh Richmond, in his “Dying Cottager,” tells of his last visit to the deathbed of the young convert he had led to Jesus.
He asked the girl what was her hope for eternity. Putting her thin, wasted fingers on the Bible that lay beside her, she said, “Christ there!” then placing her nigh transparent hand on her bosom, she said, “Christ here!” and then pointing upward, she said, “And Christ there!”
Glorious hope! Sure three-fold pledge of the safe arrival in glory of that passing soul!
And, my friends, even just so, it is most striking to notice, has this Jesus Himself done. Three times to express the same identical truths, He has used this title: First (Rev. 1:88I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1:8)), “I am A and Z” of the written book.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the all and in all of that Bible, this soul and yonder heaven.