Many have been the shadows which have fallen on the paths of God’s dear children as we have journeyed through a Christ-rejecting world. The shadows of pain, persecution, separation, misunderstanding, blighted hopes, weariness, privation, grief, and “the shadow of death.” But one of these days shall “the shadows flee away,” and we shall know by sight, even as we now know by faith, “that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Like John on Patmos we shall hear a voice saying, “Come up hither,” at “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and ... our gathering together unto Him,” “and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” “Until the day break,” let us joyfully trust and serve Him, following “the sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.” “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”
For long it has been the nighttime,
With its shadows and its sounds,
But soon He’ll come, who is the Light,
And glory will shine around.
Psa. 23:4; Rom. 8:18; Rev. 4:1; 2 Thess. 2:1; Rev. 21:4; 2 Peter 1:19; Rom. 13:12.