For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Corinthians 13:12
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 2:13
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens
being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2 Peter 3:12
Virgil Prentiss Brock - Lyrics 1887-1978
Born: January 6, 1887, Mercer County, Ohio.
Buried: Warsaw, Indiana.
Blanche Kerr Brock - Composer 1888-1958
Born: February 3, 1888, Greens Fork, Indiana.
Died: January 3, 1958, Winona Lake, Indiana.
Buried: Warsaw, Indiana.
HYMN HISTORY:
One of the best-known and widely-used songs in the entire field of gospel hymnody is “Beyond the Sunset.” Mr. Brock has left the following account of its writing:
This song was born during a conversation at the dinner table, one evening in 1936, after watching a very unusual sunset at Winona Lake Indiana, with a
blind guest—my cousin Horace Burr—and his wife Grace. A large area of the water appeared ablaze with the glory of God, yet there were threatening storm clouds gathering overhead. Returning to our home, we went to the
dinner table still talking about the impressive spectacle we had witnessed. Our blind guest excitedly remarked the he had never seen a more beautiful sunset.
“People are always amazed when you talk about seeing,” I told him, “I can see,” Horace replied. “I see through other peoples eyes, and think I often see more; I see beyond the sunset.”
The phrase “beyond the sunset” and the striking inflection of his voice struck me so forcibly, I began singing the first few measures. “That’s beautiful!” his wife interrupted, “Please go to the piano and sing it.
We went to the piano nearby and completed the first verse. “You should have a verse about the storm clouds,” our guest urged, and the words for this verse came quickly as well. Recalling how closely our guest had walked hand in hand together for so many years due to his blindness, the third verse was soon added. Before the evening meal was finished, all four stanzas had been written and we sang the entire song together.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 John 2:15-17
The things of the world may be desired and possessed for the uses and purposes which God intended, and they are to be used by his grace, and to his glory;
but believers must not seek or value them for those purposes to which sin abuses them. The world draws the heart from God; and the more the love of the world prevails, the more the love of God decays.
The things of the world quickly fade and die away; desire itself will ere long fail and cease, but holy affection is not like the lust that passes away.
The love of God shall never fail. Many vain efforts have been made to evade the force of this passage by limitations, distinctions, or exceptions. Many have tried to show how far we may be carnally-minded, and love the
world; but the plain meaning of these verses cannot easily be mistaken. Unless this victory over the world is begun in the heart, a man has no root in himself, but will fall away, or at most remain an unfruitful professor.
Yet these vanities are so alluring to the corruption in our hearts, that without constant watching and prayer, we cannot escape the world, or obtain victory over the god and prince of it. -
Matthew Henry
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Titus 2:11-14
As believers we are to look for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing:
1. With Prayer. (Luke 21:36; Ephesians 6:18)
2. With Thanksgiving (Colossians 4:2)
3. With steadfastness in the faith (1 Corinthians 16:13)
4. With heedfulness (Mark 13:33)
5. With sobriety (1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Peter 4:6)
6. At all times (Proverbs 8:34)
7. In all things (2 Timothy 4:5)
Those that wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, will be kept by him to the end; they will be blameless in the day of Christ, and will receive a crown of righteousness.
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:8
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