11*. What Cheering Words Are These
S.M.
by J. Kent
What cheering words are these!
Their sweetness who can tell?
In time and to eternal days —
" ’Tis with believers well!"
Watched by the Savior’s eye,
’Tis well with them should life endure,
And well if called to die.
Well in affliction’s ways,
Or on the mount with God;
Well when they joy and sing and praise,
Or buffet with the flood.
’Tis well when joys arise,
’Tis well when sorrows flow,
Or darkness seems to veil the skies,
And strong temptations grow.
“Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” (1 Peter 1:8)
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13)
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13)
’Tis well when on the mount
They feast and joy in love;
And ’tis as well, in God’s account,
When they the furnace prove.
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” (Isaiah 48:10)
When Jesus speaks the word,
And, at the trumpet’s sounding swell,
They rise to meet their God!
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)
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