p. 9 | Light from the Cloud

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 2, 1902

Light from the Cloud

THE common saying that “every cloud has a silver lining” does not tell all the truth. The truth is that every cloud is full of light, and the thickest, heaviest, darkest clouds contain the most light. Do you doubt it? Your own experience shall convince you. From what clouds do the lightnings come? Is it not from the thick, black, threatening thundercloud? It is now as in the beginning, when God “commanded the light to shine out of darkness.” This is also for our learning, that we might have hope.

There will come a day when the earth “shall mourn, and the heavens above be black,” and terror will take possession of the inhabitants of the earth, and it will seem as though God had forsaken and forgotten the earth; but in that day the glory of the Lord shall be revealed as never before, covering the heavens, “as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west” (Matt. 24:27); and then “they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Verse 30. Let us learn to recognize his goings here, so that when that great and terrible day shall come, we may hail it with joy, saying, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” — Selected.