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And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35:10
D.L. MOODY
Joseph Parker of London, a nineteenth-century preacher, uttered something I thought was splendid in regard to the thirty-fifth of Isaiah where it says in verse ten, “Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” Take up an old dictionary, he said, and once in a while, you will come across a word marked “obsolete.” The time is coming, he said, when those two words, “sorrow” and “sighing” shall be obsolete. Sighing and sorrow shall flee away, to be no more. Thank God for the outlook!
ERWIN LUTZER
Yes, that time is coming! When God restores creation, some things will be no more; indeed, even death will be gone forever. “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more” (Revelation 21:4). The hearse will have taken its last journey. There may be some vocations that will continue in heaven, but being an undertaker will not be one of them.
In heaven, we will see things as God sees them, and so our tears will be wiped away. We will say, “Father, on Earth there was much we could not understand. Now that we see your purposes from your eternal perspective, we praise and bless your holy name.” Weeping is gone forever.
Imagine it! We will be abiding in the glory of God, talking face to face with Him as one speaks with a friend. And we will say, as Philip did, “Show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied” (John 14:8). And that request will be fully answered. We shall behold the Father and be satisfied. A new home! A new city! A new occupation—worshiping the Father and enjoying Him forever.
PRAYER
Father, all that I am, all that I have, and ever hope to be is yours forever and ever.REFLECTION QUESTIONS
If our greatest request is to ‘behold the Father,’ why do we often seek satisfaction in earthly things that are destined to pass away?Since worshiping the Father is our ‘new occupation’ in eternity, how can you start practicing that vocation in your workplace or home today?