Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering—will be revealed in heaven.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

Just Imagine. No illness. Ever. No pain. No aging or frailty of any kind. No loss or grief or tears. And obviously no more dying, not even if the stars shattered into motes and the moon disintegrated like a corpse beneath the sea.

For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the covenant with death (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life which shall swallow up and conquer life-devouring death. ~ p.14

I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.

Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them,' nor any scorching heat" (NIV). What an encouraging scene!

The Bible assures us that a morning will dawn bright and glorious someday. All the sorrow and sadness and difficulty we've known in the darkened skies of life will vanish. The Lord will return for us at the daybreak of eternity, and there will be no more weeping, no more pain or suffering, no more broken hearts. There will be no more valleys plunging away from the peaks. He will dry every tear, and there will be joy in that great morning.

There'll be no more crying, or sorrow; for the owner of the place will wipe all tears from our eyes.

For His righteousness rises above the sins of all men; His life is more powerful than all death; His salvation is more unconquerable than all hell.

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.

And what if Israel's God had done in person, in the person of this man, what he said he would do, defeating death itself and launching his new creation?