Land Of Eternal Spring

I have beem young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken. - Psalm 37:25



The former president of Columbia Bible College in South Carolina, J. Robertson McQuilkin, pointed our that God has a wise purpose in letting us grow old and weak:

"I think God planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty which is forever. And so we'll be eager to leave the temporary, deteriorating part of us and be truly homesick for our eternal home. If we stayed young and strong and beautiful, we might never want to leave."

When we are young, happily occupied with all our relationships and activities, we may not long for our celestial Home. But as time passes, we may find ourselves without family and friends, afflicted with dim vision and hearing difficulties, no longer able to relish food, or troubled by sleeplessness.

Here's the advice I give myself: Be grateful that, as the apostle Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 6:17, "God... gives us richly all things to enjoy" in life's summer and winter we can anticipate that we'll soon be living in the land of eternal spring. - Vernon C. Grounds



There's a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith we can see it afar;
For the Father waits over the way,
To prepare us a dwelling-place there. - Bennett

The promise of heaven is our eternal hope.

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Ecclesiates 12:1-7

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;" Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the strong men shall bow themselves, And the grinders cease because they are few, And those who look out of the windows are darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the street;

When the sound of the grinding is low, And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of music shall be brought low; Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshoper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:

Before the silver cord is severed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pithcher is broken at the spring, Or the wheel broken at the cistern, And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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