0611. The Pacifying Hope

The Pacifying Hope

"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. * * Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" (Jam_5:7-8).

The context of our key verse is very striking. First, there is the scene of the rich man heaping up his treasure during the last days with his gold and silver rusted through. He is living delicately, and in self-indulgence upon the earth.

Secondly, there is the scene of the contemporaneous laboring man, who has reaped down the fields of the rich and whose hire has been kept back by fraud.

This is just that which is before our very eyes to-day. Never have the rich and the poor faced each other, as to-day; never have capital and labor frowned upon each other, as to-day. The whole world seems in a turmoil of strikes, of labor difficulties. Bolshevism with its rapid fanaticism is shaking two continents. No one can tell the prognostications of the world chart; no one knows what may lie just around the next shoreline.

‘Mid all the darkness and the strife there is but one lamp that is shining clearly; that lamp is the more sure Word of Prophecy. There is but one hope that calms our fears and pacifies our hearts, and that hope is the hope that Jesus Christ is standing at the door.

Just a few more hours of patient waiting and He will come.

Behold the husbandman, how he waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and "hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and the latter rain." Let the children of God establish their hearts, let them be patient; let them grudge not, one against another; let them murmur not; let them not join the forces, with Bolshevistic revenge: "behold the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR