When I awake, the soul’s deep, yearning quest
Shall find in perfect love eternal rest.
Then I shall see Him, even as He is,
Who, while I wandered, knew and named me His.
When I awaken in the better land,
Divine Redeemer, like Thee shall I stand.
Not long the slumber and the dream abide–
When I awake I shall be satisfied.
Christ knows what is in man. When He looks upon us He sees not only what we are, but also what we may become. The gardener in the early springtime, when he looks at the bare, briery bush in his garden, sees in it a vision of glorious roses – what it will be in June under his culture. Christ looks upon a young life as it stands before Him and sees in it, beneath its unattractiveness, a vision of splendid manhood, and calls for it fulfillment.
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