Eternity

Intertwining Events – Joni Eareckson Tada

Only heaven will reveal the incredibly complex intertwining of events in which you have played a pivotal role.

– Joni Eareckson Tada –

Forever with the Lord – Archbishop Usher

When Peter saw Moses and Elijah with Christ in his transfiguration, though he had but a glimpse of glory, yet he says “It is good for us to be here.” But Oh! How infinitely good it will be to be in heaven. How shall we then be rapt up with glory, when we shall be forever with the Lord!

– Archbishop Usher –
1581-1656

Know Jesus – John Newton

To know Jesus is the shortest description of true grace; to know him better is the surest mark of growth in grace; to know him perfectly is eternal life.

– John Newton –

Waiting Souls – Thomas Brooks

The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him (Lam 3:25). Waiting souls, remember this assurance is yours, but the time of the giving it is the Lord’s; the jewel is yours, but the season in which he will give it is in his own hand: the gold chain is yours, but he only knows the hour wherein he will put it about your necks.

Well! Wait patiently and quietly, wait expectantly, wait believingly, wait affectionately, and wait diligently, and you shall find that scripture made good in power upon your souls, “Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry,” (Heb 10:37, Hab 2:3).

– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance, 1654