Lift Up Your Heads

Prophecy is history written beforehand. With God promise is reality, truth is fact. In the coming of the Lord is the hope of the world. It is not the “larger hope” but the “blessed hope” that is the true and substantial hope of God’s people and all humanity; and this revelation of eternal Kingship makes its claim upon us, and is intended to elicit a response of joyful confidence. We are to live and work in the light of this glorious day. It will give tone and power to our service, it will save us from despair, it will give fibre and force to all our endeavors, it will make us radiantly optimistic and never gloomily pessimistic. Not for an instance must we ever be discouraged, even by the gravest problems in the present condition of the world. “He must reign, He shall reign.” There must be no looking backward, even to what are called the “good old days.” Doubtless they were good old days; but as God is true, as Christ is real, as the Spirit is powerful, the present days are better, and the best is yet to come. Never must we tremble for the ark of God, though may well tremble for everything else. “Cease ye from man,” and live and work only in the light of “glorious day that is coming by-and-by.”