The voice of weeping shall be no more heard."

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.  Charles Spurgeon


The voice of weeping shall be no more heard."

-- Isaiah 65:19



The glorified weep no more, for all outward causes of grief are gone.

There are no broken friendships, nor blighted prospects in heaven.

Poverty, famine, peril, persecution, and slander, are unknown there. No

pain distresses, no thought of death or bereavement saddens. They weep

no more, for they are perfectly sanctified. No "evil heart of unbelief"

prompts them to depart from the living God; they are without fault

before his throne, and are fully conformed to his image. Well may they

cease to mourn who have ceased to sin. They weep no more, because all

fear of change is past. They know that they are eternally secure. Sin

is shut out, and they are shut in. They dwell within a city which shall

never be stormed; they bask in a sun which shall never set; they drink

of a river which shall never dry; they pluck fruit from a tree which

shall never wither. Countless cycles may revolve, but eternity shall

not be exhausted, and while eternity endures, their immortality and

blessedness shall co-exist with it. They are for ever with the Lord.

They weep no more, because every desire is fulfilled. They cannot wish

for anything which they have not in possession. Eye and ear, heart and

hand, judgment, imagination, hope, desire, will, all the faculties, are

completely satisfied; and imperfect as our present ideas are of the

things which God hath prepared for them that love him, yet we know

enough, by the revelation of the Spirit, that the saints above are

supremely blessed. The joy of Christ, which is an infinite fulness of

delight, is in them. They bathe themselves in the bottomless, shoreless

sea of infinite beatitude. That same joyful rest remains for us. It may

not be far distant. Ere long the weeping willow shall be exchanged for

the palm-branch of victory, and sorrow's dewdrops will be transformed

into the pearls of everlasting bliss. "Wherefore comfort one another

with these words."

Charles Spurgeon