EV 14:13{SA 21:6{Probably every one who reads this has at least one of those golden links to Heaven which God's own hand has forged from our earthly treasures. It may be that the very nearest and dearest that had been given are now taken away. And how often "no relation, only a dear friend" is an "only" of heart-crushing emphasis! Human comfort goes for very little in this; but let us lay our hearts open to the comfort wherewith we are comforted of God Himself about it. There is not much directly to ourselves; He knew that the truest and sweetest comfort would come by looking not at our loss, but at their gain. Whatever this gain is, it is all His own actual and immediate doing. "Thou hast made him" (read here the name of the very one for whom we are mourning) "most blessed." "Most!" How shall we reach that thought? Make a shining stairway of every bright beatitude in the Bible, blessed upon blessed, within and also far beyond our own experience. And when we have built them up till they reach unto Heaven, still this "most blessed" is beyond, out of our sight, in the unapproachable glory of God Himself. It will always be "most," for it is "forever"—everlasting light without a shadow, everlasting songs without a minor.
The prayer of many a day is all fulfilled,
Only by full fruition stayed and stilled;
You asked for blessing as your Father willed,
Now He hath answered: "Most blessed forever.”
From the great anthems of the Crystal Sea,
Through the far vistas of eternity,
Grand echoes of the word peal on for thee,
Sweetest and fullest: "Most blessed forever.”