Believer, do you ever wonder why you are still in this world of woe? Do you have a strong desire to be "absent from the body and present with the Lord"? Here is the answer from Spurgeon.
We live unto the Lord.
Romans 14:8 "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
If God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the moment of
conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality
that we should tarry here. It is possible for a man to be taken to heaven, and
to be found meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light,
though he has but just believed in Jesus. It is true that our sanctification is
a long and continued process, and we shall not be perfected till we lay aside
our bodies and enter within the veil; but nevertheless, had the Lord so willed
it, He might have changed us from imperfection to perfection, and have taken us
to heaven at once. Why then are we here? Would God keep His children out of
paradise a single moment longer than was necessary? Why is the army of the
living God still on the battle-field when one charge might give them the
victory? Why are His children still wandering hither and thither through a
maze, when a solitary word from His lips would bring them into the centre of
their hopes in heaven? The answer is-they are here that they may "live
unto the Lord," and may bring others to know His love. We remain on earth
as sowers to scatter good seed; as ploughmen to break up the fallow ground; as
heralds publishing salvation. We are here as the "salt of the earth,"
to be a blessing to the world. We are here to glorify Christ in our daily life.
We are here as workers for Him, and as "workers together with Him."
Let us see that our life answereth its end. Let us live earnest, useful, holy
lives, to "the praise of the glory of His grace
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