Here on earth they were "by nature the children of wrath,
even as others;" they had their tribulations and often murmured at God's
dealings with them. But there in that heavenly home they will understand
the reason for all this. The deep mysteries of the Christian life are now
revealed, and they see that a father's chastisements are the work of a
father's love, and worketh out for them that are exercised thereby, an
"exceeding and eternal weight of glory." They now see that while in their
tent-home they lived in the center of a grand system of natural,
providential and spiritual things, all of which were working in beautiful
harmony together for "the good of them that loved God and were the called
according to His purpose;" and with rapturous gratitude they cry out,
"Marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are all thy
ways, O thou King of Saints!"
Here, too, they will fully realize the wisdom of the Christian home and
life; they will now see how wise it was for them as a family, to serve the
Lord. In their earthly home, they "knew whom they believed, and were
persuaded that he was able to keep that which they committed unto Him
against that day." They did this in the midst of fiery trials. They were
unknown. The world, hated and despised them as she did their divine Master.
But they persevered unto the end; and now they "shine forth as the sun in
the kingdom of their Father.
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