. One Eternal Unclouded Day, Maria
Sandberg, Glimpses of Heaven, 1880. There shall be no night
there. They need no lamp nor light of
the sun, for the Lord God gives them light, and they shall reign
forever and ever. Revelation 22.5. While in this
world, our weary bodies require the refreshment of sleep, and
our merciful God has graciously given to us this sweet Restorer
of Strength. Often we have retired to rest,
overcome with fatigue and anxiety, perhaps distressed with pain. But sleep has taken away these
feelings, and we have risen the next day in health and peace
to serve our God with joyfulness. On a bed of sickness, this text
has often been a source of comfort to the believer. There shall
be no night there. But there will be no night in
heaven, because there will be no need of rest from labor, of
relief from pain, of solace and refreshment under fatigue. The
former state of things will have fully passed away, and one eternal,
unclouded day will have dawned upon us. Our spirits will then
be made perfect, and at the resurrection, our glorified bodies will rise,
no more to be a clog upon our soul's enjoyment. A night of
pain and wakefulness is often a time in which God teaches His
people. In the midst of active employment,
the soul is not at leisure for reflection, and in the short
periods devoted to retirement for prayer and meditation, The
thoughts are often strangely distracted by what has gone before,
or by the anticipation of coming events, but in a night of weariness
and pain there seems to be a rest from outward things The soul
is brought to stand before God, it must think, it must reflect,
it must examine itself, and ask if all is safe for eternity,
if it is in Christ, if it is prepared to die. blessed result
of pain, if led thereby to seek the Lord Jesus and find rest
in Him, blessed result of pain, if led thereby to meditate on
heaven's eternal day of rest. There shall be no night there,
no wearisome hours of discipline, no learning the dark intricacies
and windings of our heart and the deceitfulness of sin. There
shall be no night there, no night of error, no darkness of soul,
no dark unbelieving thoughts of God and of His ways, but all
will be clear, bright and shining to all eternity. The way by which
the Lord our God has led us will then be seen, the retrospect
will be clear, we will see that our path has been a safe and
right one, and we will glorify our gracious God. He led them
forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. Psalm 107.7