The days of your mourning shall be ended!

(John MacDuff) LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio

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"The days of your mourning shall be ended!" Isaiah 60:20

Christ's people are a weeping band, though there is much in this lovely world to make them happy. Yet when they think of their sin, need we wonder at their tears in their pilgrimage in this "valley of tears?"

Bereavement, sickness, poverty, and death follow the track of sin, adding to their mourning experience; and with many of God's best beloved, one tear is scarcely dried when another is ready to flow!

Mourners rejoice! When the reaping time comes, the weeping time ends! When the white robe and the golden harp are bestowed, every remnant of the sackcloth attire is removed.

The moment the pilgrim, whose forehead is here furrowed with woe, bathes it in the crystal River of Life--that moment the pangs of a lifetime of sorrow are eternally forgotten!

Reader! If you are one of these careworn ones, the days of your mourning are numbered! A few more throbbings of this aching heart--and then shall sorrow, and sighing, and mourning, be gone forever!

"Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their Shepherd. He will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes!"Revelation 7:16-17

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes! There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain--for the old order of things has passed away!" Revelation 21:4

"The days of your mourning shall be ended!" Isaiah 60:20