Feb. 28
REAL ESTATE IN HEAVEN
"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 have" it even now. They say, "A
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"; but we have our bird in
the bush and in the hand too. Heaven is even now our own. We have the
title-deed of it, we have the earnest of it, we have the first fruits
of it. We have Heaven in price, in promise, and in principle: this we
know not only by the hearing of the ear, but "in ourselves."
Should not the thought of the better substance on the other side of
Jordan reconcile us to present losses? Our spending-money we may lose,
but our treasure is safe. We have lost the shadows, but the substance
remains, for our Saviour lives, and the place which He has prepared
for us abides. There is a better land, a better substance, a better
promise; and all this comes to us by a better covenant; wherefore, let
us be in better spirits, and say unto the Lord, "Every day will I
bless thee; and praise thy name for ever and ever."