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.
“Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.” (Psalm 119:117)
“Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” (Hebrews 4:13)
“According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.” (Philippians 1:20-23)
Well in affliction’s ways,
Or on the mount with God;
Well when they joy and sing and praise,
Or buffet with the flood.
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” (Psalm 119:71)
’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)
’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.
When Jesus speaks the word,
And, at the trumpet’s sounding swell,
They rise to meet their God!
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