Worth Meditating On

Every day of our lives, we will encounter or hear grief and pain. Loved ones snatched away by the great enemy death: babies from their mothers' arms; husbands and wives, fathers and mothers; aged ones, leaning on one another, depending on one another suddenly parted by death; bringing sorrow and crying to the lonely survivor. How appropriate for us, who know the plan of God, who know the reason for it all, to close our eyes and meditate for a moment on that glorious day now near at hand, when, "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away." (Revelation 21:4)

Whenever we see the lame, the halt, and the blind; those with physical deformities and diseases which Jesus described as those "whom Satan hath bound" (Luke 13:16), we can fervently breathe the prayer, "Thy kingdom come!" knowing that this is the answer to all earth's problems. Perhaps this will lead us to meditate upon the glorious prospect before us, that if we are faithful, we will have a part in the healing of the nations! Think of it! How often, when you have seen sickness, suffering, and deformity, have you longed to have the power to relieve it, to be able to say, "Take up thy bed and walk!"? You will have that power, if faithful, and much more than that: to grant not only physical healing and perfection, but life everlasting to the obedient. That is something to mediate over!

Discourses of Robert Seklemian, "The Shepherd Psalm"