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by L B Cowman
Ready to Move
"For we know that if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" (2 Cor.5:1).
The owner of the tenement which I have occupied for many years has given notice
that he will furnish but little or nothing more for repairs. I am advised to be
ready to move.
At first this was not a very welcome notice. The surroundings here are in many
respects very pleasant, and were it not for the evidence of decay, I should
consider the house good enough. But even a light wind causes it to tremble and
totter, and all the braces are not sufficient to make it secure. So I am getting
ready to move.
It is strange how quickly one's interest is transferred to the prospective home.
I have been consulting maps of the new country and reading descriptions of its
inhabitants. One who visited it has returned, and from him I learn that it is
beautiful beyond description; language breaks down in attempting to tell of what
he heard while there. He says that, in order to make an investment there, he has
suffered the loss of all things that he owned here, and even rejoices in what
others would call making a sacrifice. Another, whose love to me has been proven
by the greatest possible test, is now there. He has sent me several clusters of
the most delicious fruits. After tasting them, all food here seems insipid.
Two or three times I have been down by the border of the river that forms the
boundary, and have wished myself among the company of those who were singing
praises to the King on the other side. Many of my friends have moved there.
Before leaving they spoke of my coming later. I have seen the smile upon their
faces as they passed out of sight. Often I am asked to make some new investments
here, but my answer in every case is, "I am getting ready to move." --Selected
The words often on Jesus' lips in His last days express vividly the idea, "going
to the Father." We, too, who are Christ's people, have vision of something
beyond the difficulties and disappointments of this life. We are journeying
towards fulfillment, completion, expansion of life. We, too, are "going to the
Father." Much is dim concerning our home-country, but two things are clear. It
is home, "the Father's House." It is the nearer presence of the Lord. We are all
wayfarers, but the believer knows it and accepts it. He is a traveler, not a
settler. --R. C. Gillie
Let us go singing, then, and not go sighing:
The little birds trust God, for they go singing
From northern woods where autumn winds have blown,
With joyous faith their trackless pathway winging
To summer-lands of song, afar, unknown.
Since we are sure our times are in His hand,
Why should we weep, and fear, and call it dying?
'Tis only flitting to a Summer-land.
--Selected
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