The mysterious story which has been gradually unfolded before us has only this one design-the Father would make known his love to the Son and make the Son’s glories to appear before the eyes of those whom the Father gave him. But the Father’s love made him resolve to show forth the glory of his Son. How did all this which we now see and hear happen? Why this creation? this fall of Adam? this redemption? this church? this Heaven? How did it all come about? It didn’t need to have been. And the whole of God’s omnipotence flowed forth in a stream of love to the Son, while the Son’s whole being remained eternally one with the Father by a mysterious essential union. Oh, the intensity of the divine love of the Father to the Son! There was no world, no sun, no moon, no stars, no universe, but God alone. The Divine Three-Father, Son, and Spirit-lived in blessed camaraderie with each other, delighting in each other. There was a time before all time when God only was, the uncreated, the only existent One. Jesus tells us that the air of his home is love: “You loved me before the foundation of the world.”īrothers and sisters, can you follow me in a great flight? Can you stretch broader wings than the condor ever knew and fly back into the unbeginning eternity? There was a day before all days when there was no day but the Ancient of Days. In it, he encourages his congregation to view death as a home-going, as the gateway to full union with Christ:īreathe the home air. Spurgeon delivered this sermon on March 21, 1886, just three days after the death of his friend and fellow pastor Charles Stanford. It’s the first of 50 entries drawn from Charles Spurgeon’s sermons on Heaven, and it’s entitled “Dying Is But Going Home.” It seems fitting to share right now. Today’s blog is excerpted from my book We Shall See God. Don’t feel your prayers were not answered-many of them were, and many others were answered in a better way than we could ever ask. Thank you so much for all your prayers, some of you for four years of praying consistently for Nanci. As of Monday, Nanci now lives where she sees this firsthand, in the place where Joy truly is the air she breathes: “In your presence is fullness of joy, at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11). This is not a fairytale it is the blood-bought promise of Jesus. All God’s children really will live happily ever after. I have spent the last two days with family and friends, thanking God for His grace and the promises of Jesus that we will live with Him forever in a world without the Curse, and He will wipe away all the tears and all the reasons for the tears. Nanci is and always will be an inspiration to me. I am so proud of my wife for her dependence on Jesus and her absolute trust in the sovereign plan and love of God. Grieving is ahead, and it will be hard, but these last years and especially this last month have given us a head start on the grieving process. But the happiness for her triumphs over the sadness. As of Monday morning, Nanci is with Jesus.
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