One of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father’s loving care for us is that we so often find in the next life the things, which gave us great happiness below.
The more unexpected this is, the greater joy it brings.
A story is recounted when, once seeing a beautiful little girl enter heaven, the very first to come of a large and affectionate family, the sorrowful cry of her mother was—
If only we had someone there to meet her—to care for her!
She came, lovingly nestled in the Master’s own arms, and as He sat, still caressing and talking to her, a remarkably fine Angora kitten, of which the child had been very fond, and which had sickened and died some weeks before to her great sorrow, came running across the grass and sprang directly into her arms, where it lay contentedly.
Such a glad cry, as she recognised her little favourite, such a hugging and kissing, as that kitten received, made joy even in heaven!
Who, but our loving Father, would have thought of such comfort for a little child?
Suffice it to say that no joy we know on earth, however rare, however sacred, can be more than the faintest shadow of the joy we find here—
No dreams of rapture here unrealised approach the bliss of one moment even in this divine world.
No sorrow, no pain, no sickness, no death, no partings, no disappointments, no tears, but those of joy—
No broken hopes, no mislaid plans, no night, nor storm, nor shadows even, but light and joy and love and peace and rest, forever and forever.
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