We're Not Sad!
If you loved Me, you would
rejoice because I said, “I am
going to the Father.”
John 14: 28
An old hymn says, “I came to Jesus as I was, weary
and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and
He has made me glad.” That song was on the mind of
a man visiting the British expositor Martyn Lloyd-Jones
who was dying of cancer.
The friend
suggested Lloyd-Jones take medicine
to make him more comfortable, but Lloyd-Jones
wanted nothing to dull his mind. The friend said
he was grieved to see Lloyd-Jones lying there
“weary and worn and sad.”
That was too much for
Lloyd-Jones.
Rousing himself, he mustered his
energy and whispered:
“Not sad! Not
sad!”
Death can’t hold us in its grip when we know
heaven awaits us. Jesus was speaking not only
for Himself but for His followers when He
said
that if we loved Him, we would be glad that He
was going to His Father.
We naturally want to hold our loved ones close
to us for as long as possible, but the Bible says
that going to be with Jesus is “far
better”. Even
at death’s door, we sorrow not as those who
have no hope.
"Do not hold me
back from the glory."
Martyn Lloyd-Jones