"Knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance" Heb 10:34
This is well. Our substance here is very insubstantial; there is no substance in it. But God has given us a promise of real estate in the glory-land, and that promise comes to our hearts with such full assurance of its certainty, that we know in ourselves that we have an enduring substance there. Yes, "we
The hour is approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to all—‘Arise, and go forth from the home in which thou hast dwelt, from the city in which thou hast done thy business, from thy family, from thy friends. Arise, and take thy last journey.’ And what know we of the journey? And what know we of the country to which we are bound?
The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, ‘I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!’ This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation in the heavenly state is ‘the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.’ Nothing else attracted the apostle’s attention so much as the person of that Divine Being, who hath redeemed us by his blood.
God delivers his people from the snare of the fowler in two senses. From, and out of. First, he delivers them from the snare—does not let them enter it; and secondly, if they should be caught therein, he delivers them out of it. The first promise is the most precious to some; the second is the best to others.
In his painting "An Allegory of Prudence," 16th-century Venetian artist Titian portrayed Prudence as a man with three heads. One head was of a youth facing the future, another was of a mature man eyeing the present, and the third was of a wise old man gazing at the past. Over their heads Titian wrote a Latin phrase that means, "From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future."
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