Our Master will come back again
August 21, 2023•179 words
But let us take courage: there are better days yet to come. Our great Redeemer and Liberator has gone before us to prepare a place for His people, and when He comes again our redemption will be complete. The great jubilee year is yet to come:
— A few more Christmas and New Year's Days
— A few more meetings and partings
— A few more births and deaths
— A few more weddings and funerals
— A few more tears and struggles
— A few more sicknesses and pains -- A few more Sundays, Baptisms, and Lord Suppers
— A few more sermons and prayers
— A few more, and the end will come!
Our Master will come back again. The dead saints will be raised. The living saints will be changed. Then, and not till then will we be completely free. The liberty which we enjoyed by faith will be changed into the liberty of sight, and the freedom of hope into the freedom of certainty.
—J. C. Ryle, "Freedom," 'Practical Religion' (Kindle Locations 3035-3044). Kindle Edition.