Untitled article by Henry Vesey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 6, 1883

Postal Jottings.—No. 6.

By Henry Vesey

JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH. Ex. 48 : 33. This is the climax. This is the joyous thought with regard to the new heavens and the new earth, the holy city, the new Jerusalem,—“The Lord (will be) there.” Speak not merely of its precious stones and jasper walls, of its pearly gates and golden streets, but make known that the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. Rev. 21: 1, 2, 22, 23. The glory of God will lighten it, and the Lamb will be the light thereof. Listen! “Behold the tabernacle of God will be with men, and he will dwell with them,” not to tarry for a night, not to walk there simply in “the cool of the day,” (Gen. 3 : 8), but to be their constant light and joy. Rev. 22 : 5. Oh joy of joys! He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among the 144,000, who will have come out of the great tribulation (Greek), and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Rev. 7 : 14, 15.

Can we have Jehovah-shammah written over our homes to day? “The Lord is there,” is he, beloved? Is love reigning in our homes, yours and mine? Does God dwell with us? “With that man will God dwell, who is of a contrite and humble spirit.” Is. 57 : 15. If evil thoughts are allowed in our hearts, if we are proud and worldly, God cannot dwell with us. If our children are disobedient and quarrelsome, evil angels are about us and God is not here. Oh let us personally and socially seek the Lord, both parents and children seek him, that the name of our homes may be, “THE LORD IS THERE.” HENRY VESEY.

Battle Creek (Mich.) College.