Saturday, February 05, 2005
Another divine Quote
Alexander Henderson
"We know how ill you are. Why are you so cheerful?" A friend of Henderson's asked him when he was dying.
"Well, I will tell you the reason. I'm near the end of my race, hastening home, and I am as glad of it as a schoolboy when sent home from the school to his father’s house.In a few days, I will sicken and die, In my sickness I will be much out of ease to speak of anything, but I desire that you maybe with me as much as you can and you shall see that all shall end well."Heb 11
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been th"nking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. |
