the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" Mercy shall be built up forever." ― Psalms 89:2.
" Forty centuries look upon you," said Bonaparte to his soldiers, pointing to the pyramids. Compared with the ordinary structures of man, these are immense, massive, enduring. Yet all the monuments of men are built upon leased ground, and with borrowed materials. They must vanish away. Another monument is to be reared; a monument to the mercy of God. Nothing less than the entire length and breadth of the earth will suffice for its foundation. Even the sea must be dried up to make room for it.
Of course the paltry monuments of man must disappear when the time comes for the completion of this magnificent structure. It is already begun. The foundations have been dug in some places. The chief corner-stone has been laid, and so have the first and the second tiers of stones connected with the foundation. The stakes have been set up that indicate its dimensions. Laborers are at work in many quarries. The mountains are heaving. The bowels of the earth prepare to surrender their stores. A fiat has gone forth, heeded by some, by many not heard, declaring that everything in heaven and on earth is to be held in readiness for any exigency connected with this building. It is to be the most glorious edifice that the universe ever beheld. The light of it is to flash upon the most distant worlds, and give them a glory that they never had before. The central sun will find itself eclipsed by the effulgence streaming from this monument. The boldest conceptions of those who began the Tower of Babel, were utterly childish in comparison with this structure that is to rear its head far aloft above the highest mountains, far above the highest clouds, up, up among the stars, indeed far above all stars; nor will any finite admeasurement ever determine its height. This monument contains the mansions of the elect. It is the Palace of the Lamb. Its stones are living stones. Its pillars bear the image of Christ in living, breathing characters. Around the gallery of its dome, is an inscription, whose every letter is a host of redeemed beings, all together spelling the sentence, " God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son."
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