A Blessed Assurance

Signs Publishing Co. · Melbourne, Victoria · Jun 28, 1920

FromAustraliasian Signs of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 26.

A Blessed Assurance

ONE of the most blessed promises to the Christian, sorrowing over the wreck of human hopes and the desolations and miseries of war, is this:—

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in My people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.” Isa. 65:17-19, A.R.V.

The Almighty purposes to put the sorrowful experiences of His people as completely out of their minds as He will have put their transgressions out of His mind. We do not understand it now; but we look with the eye of faith for the soul-satisfying experience of that recreated and rebeautified home of the redeemed concerning which Inspiration has declared:—

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” I Cor 2:9.

MR. H. ASQUITH, A FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, IS BY NO MEANS CERTAIN AS TO THE ABILITY OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO ABOLISH WAR

What a contrast there will be for the redeemed between the restfulness of that world and the turmoil of this; between the beauties and glories of the saints’ eternal

home and the ugly and terrifying desolations of this present world; between the blessed assurance of eternal life in such a land and the dread of dissolution in this valley of the shadow of death. Out of these woes and into that blessedness; out of this strife and into that peace; out of this uncertainty and into that blessed reality;—such is the comforting assurance of the Christian’s hope; and never does it seem so precious as when the conflicts and distresses of this present world take on their most fearsome aspect. “What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.” Ps. 56:3. “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, even Jehovah, is my strength and song; and He is become my salvation.” Isa. 12:2, A.R.V.