December 21, 2019

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever (Rev. 22:5).
 
    In the city of God 'there shall be no night.'  None will need or desire repose.  There will be no weariness in doing the will of God and offering praise to His name.  We shall ever feel the freshness of the morning and shall ever be far from its close....The glory of God and the Lamb floods the Holy City with unfading light.  The redeemed walk in the sunless glory of perpetual day" (The Great Controversy, p. 676).
 
    The light of that city is divine, "for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.  And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it" (Rev. 21:23, 24).  If we follow Him who is in the light of life here, we shall walk with Him in eternal light there.
 
    Those who come out of the darkness of sin into the light of the gospel will reign here in the light the Lord God shall give.
 
    John Newton, who came out of the depths of sin and degradation to be a noble minister of God, said there will be three wonders he will see in the light of heaven.  The first wonder will be to see so many people there whom he did not expect to see.  The second wonder will be to miss many people whom he did expect to see.  The third and greatest wonder of all will be to find himself there.  God grant that we may all share that wonder too in the city of light eternal.
 
                                So at last we see in heaven's bright morning
                                        The face of Him who brought our soul from night;
                                And in the pure glory of that fair dawning,
                                        All shadows end in His eternal light.
 
 
MEDITATION PRAYER:  "Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever" (Ps. 145:2).