Since we see God, the Lord of heaven, in Jesus, the only and all-satisfying knowledge we have of the future life is that it will accord with the will of the Father of Jesus Christ.  Of its details we can merely say, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.”  But we know God in Christ:  we are certain of many things that cannot be included in a life where His heart has its way; the city of our hope has walls; but it has also gates on all sides and several gates on every side, and we are certain of its hospitability to all that accords with the mind of Christ.  That which renders the life within the veil not all dark to us is the fact that “the Lamb is the light thereof.”  There is a connection between it and our life today; the one Lord rules earth and heaven; and Him we know through Jesus.  Humbly acknowledging that we know but in part, glad that the future has in store for us glorious surprises, we are convinced that for us there waits a life in God, in which His children shall attain their Christlike selves in Christlike fellowship one with another and with Him, their Christlike Father.  More than this who cares to know?  More than this, for what can Christians wish?

Adhoesi testimoniis tuis, Domine.

Psalm, cxviii (119):  31, Vulgate.

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