{"id":24916,"date":"2025-05-08T22:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24916"},"modified":"2025-05-08T22:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:58:39","slug":"while-the-earth-remaineth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/05\/while-the-earth-remaineth\/","title":{"rendered":"While The Earth Remaineth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201dWhile the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.\u201d\u2014Genesis 8:22<\/strong><\/p>\n

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. By faith we view the declarations of Jehovah as the blessings of a father\u2019s love. The returning seasons, the revolving periods of time declare the glory of our heavenly Father; while the Christian meditates upon and gratitude inspires his heart for the innumerable blessings of time, yet far nobler subjects demand the contemplation of his soul. Happy for us, when temporal blessings are enjoyed as covenant mercies, and are sanctified to us in Christ Jesus. We see and adore the sovereignty of God in appointing times and seasons. The immutability of his will is the law by which they are governed. When the fixed period shall come, all nature shall be reduced to its primitive nothing. Time shall be swallowed up in a never-ending eternity. Happy soul, who art taught the displays of grace from the images of nature, who bows to the sovereignty of love, rejoices in the covenant of grace, and rests upon the immutability of God\u2019s purposes and promises in Christ Jesus to poor sinners. Such are assured that as in nature, so in the kingdom of grace, seedtime and harvest shall not fail to God\u2019s church and people, because of his everlasting covenant which is ordered in all things, and sure.<\/p>\n

There is a time for the immortal seed of the word to be sown in every elect soul. This is experienced by the seed striking root in conviction of sin; by its springing up in faith, desire, and love to Jesus. And because the Sun of righteousness ever lives and shines upon his people, they shall most assuredly reap a harvest of eternal glory. Chilling cold and winter\u2019s blasts may succeed the summer of love and warm affections. Nights of darkness, from desertion, temptation and affliction, may follow days of peace, joy and consolation. These various seasons and changes will pass upon and be experienced by believing souls \u2018while the earth remaineth;’ that is, so long as our earthly sensual nature continues; but it is sentenced to dissolution. We must leave it on this side Jordan, then we shall see it no more as an enemy for ever. But in the presence of Jesus the soul shall have fulness of joy, and the body shall be raised a glorious body, to enjoy the pleasures which areat his right hand for evermore. There shall be no night of darkness, no chill of affections, no winter of distress. Of every one of his beloved members, Christ saith, \u2018Because I live, ye shall live also.\u2019 In the experience of faith we know \u2018Christ is our life;\u2019 with joy we declare, \u2018when he shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory.’<\/p>\n

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Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. By faith we view the declarations of Jehovah as the blessings of a father\u2019s love. The returning seasons, the revolving periods of time declare the glory of our heavenly Father; while the Christian meditates upon and gratitude inspires his heart for the innumerable blessings of time, yet far nobler subjects demand the contemplation of his soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1197],"class_list":["post-24916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-spiritual-growth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24918,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions\/24918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}