“Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.”
I am neither a novelty preacher or writer; nevertheless, to get a point across it is sometimes necessary to have a play upon words. When Jesus spoke, in our text, of the hereafter it was in reference to this life, not the next. Thus we find there is a here and an after-here. There becomes here when you drop the “T.” When you arrive there it becomes here to you. I speak of a double-here. Where you’re at and where you are headed. They’re both here in time.
Peter writes of that blessed hereafter, “But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” Also Daniel could testify to what awaits one in the hereafter, when finally loosed from the lion's mouth, “So this Daniel prospered.”
And what saith darling David about the storms of life; when we have moved from the first here to the second here? “For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.”
Our blessed Lord leaves us an example of this truth. After His great temptation we read, “Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.” O, the sweet hereafter!
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