The righteous hath hope in his death. Proverbs 14:32
Let me die the death of the righteous. Numbers 23:10
RO 14:32{UM 23:10{What will the harps of Heaven be to the thrill of the one Voice, saying, "Come, ye blessed of my Father!" and, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Our dear departed ones have heard that! and that one word of the King must have made them most blessed forever. At this moment they are exceeding glad, and the certainty of it stills every quiver of our selfish love. The glory and joy of our Lord Jesus Christ are revealed to them, and they are "glad also with exceeding joy," rejoicing together with Jesus. How can they help reflecting His divine joy when they see it no longer by faith and afar off, but visibly, actually face to face! nay, more, eye to eye, that very closest approach of tenderest intercourse too deep for words. They see Him as He is; in all His beauty and love and glory; through no veil, no glass, no tear-mist. The prayer for them, "The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee," is altogether fulfilled, and they are "full of joy with Thy countenance." And every other prayer we ever prayed for them is fulfilled exceeding abundantly above all we asked or thought. We may not pray any more for them, because God has not left one possibility of blessedness unbestowed.
For I know
That they who are not lost, but gone before,
Are only waiting till I come; for death
Has only parted ua a little while,
And has not severed e'en the finest strand
In the eternal cable of our love:
The very strain has twined it closer still,
And added strength. The music of these lives
Is nowise stilled, but blended so with songs
Around the throne of God, that our poor ears
No longer hear it.