“Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
— 1 Thessalonians 4:14

Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. “Today shalt
thou be with me in paradise,” is the whisper of Christ to every dying
saint. They “sleep in Jesus,” but their souls are before the throne of
God, praising him day and night in his temple, singing hallelujahs to
him who washed them from their sins in his blood. The body sleeps in
its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is
this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is “rest,” and that is the
thought which the Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep makes each
night a Sabbath for the day. Sleep shuts fast the door of the soul, and
bids all intruders tarry for a while, that the life within may enter
its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps, as
does the weary child when it slumbers on its mother’s breast. Oh! happy
they who die in the Lord; they rest from their labours, and their works
do follow them. Their quiet repose shall never be broken until God
shall rouse them to give them their full reward. Guarded by angel
watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the inheritors
of glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness of
redemption. What an awaking shall be theirs! They were laid in their
last resting place, weary and worn, but such they shall not rise. They
went to their rest with the furrowed brow, and the wasted features, but
they wake up in beauty and glory. The shrivelled seed, so destitute of
form and comeliness, rises from the dust a beauteous flower. The winter
of the grave gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of
glory. Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes
us of this work-day garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of
incorruption. Blessed are those who “sleep in Jesus.”

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