The Hope Which is Laid Up.

...we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints; because of the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel." --Colossians 1:4-5

Charles H. Spurgeon wrote the following over 100 years ago. It seemed appropriate for how many of us are feeling today....

"When you and I have been in heaven ten thousand years, we will look back on our time here as nothing. Our pain will seem like a pin's prick, our gain a speck, and our duration the twinkling of an eye. We are only here long enough to feel an April shower of pain. Then we are gone among the unfading flowers of an endless May. Therefore, make the most of the least and the least of the most. Put things in order. Allot to this brief life its brief consideration and to everlasting glory its weight of happy meditations. We are to dwell thoughout eternity with God. Is not that our home? We are pilgrims because we are here for so short a space when compared with the length of time we will spend in the dear country beyond."

We thank God for Pam and the precious little time we had her here with us. But we know that her heavenly Father is holding her close. She is a child of the King. She believed in the Hope was laid up for her before the foundation of the world.

Let us not forget to fix our eyes on Jesus and cling to Him until that day when we will worship the King, along with our beautiful Pam.