[Songs in the Night - March 11]
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. Galatians 4:28
CHRIST, our Head, and we, his members, are the
antitype of him who was called "Laughter," or "Joyous."
And do we not have more joy than others, even
in this present time?
True, we have a full share in the
trials and difficulties and sorrows and disappointments
that cause the whole creation to groan and travail in pain together, yet we have what they do not have—"the peace of God which passeth all understanding,"
ruling in our hearts and enabling us to be "joyful in
tribulation" also, knowing that tribulation worketh
patience, and all the various fruits of the Spirit
which, when perfected in us, shall bring us to
the complete joy and rejoicing of the heavenly kingdom.
And if this name, Joyous, applies to us in
such degree in the present time, what shall we say of
the glorious future, when joined to our Master in the
glories of his kingdom we shall cause the knowledge
and blessing of the Lord to fill the whole earth, and
bring laughter and joy to a world of mankind, now
weak and groaning under the administration of sin
and death?
"Praise God from whom all blessings
flow!" Z'01-263 R2861:5 (Hymn 27)