y
may serve for finger-posts to point to whole realms of possible
blessed employment.

Then, again, there is more in the words "for ever with the Lord" than
even this. Who can tell what past works, not of creation only, but of
grace also, the blessed may have to search into--works wrought on
themselves and others which may then be brought back to them by memory
entirely restored, and then first studied with any power to comprehend
or to be thankful for them?

Then, again, the glory of God Himself, then first revealed to
them,--the redeeming love of Christ,--the glory of the mystery of the
indwelling of the Spirit,--dry and lofty subjects to the sons of men
here, will be to them when there as household words and as daily
pursuits. It seems to me, my brethren, when we look at all these
sources of blessed employment, though we are unable from our present
weakness to follow them out into detail,--and when we think that
perhaps after all in our earthly blindness we may be omitting some
which shall there constitute the chief, it seems to me, I say, as if
we should have to complain not of insufficient employ for the ages of
eternity, but of an infinite and inexhaustible variety, for which even
endless ages of limited being hardly seem to suffice.

Such, then, beloved, are the thoughts which have occurred to us on a
subject of which I pray that it may be one of personal interest to
every one here present.

When we are to leave this present state, is a matter hidden from our
eyes, and not dependent on ourselves: but how we will leave it,
whether as the Lord's blessed ones, or with no part in Him, this is
left for ourselves to determine. There is set before us life and
death. May we choose life, that it may be well with us; that we may
wake from the bed of death and find ourselves with the Lord; that we
may pass in joyful hope through the waiting and disembodied state, and
wake at the morning of the resurrection to that fulness of completed
bliss of which we have this day been speaking.

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