No Night There

Good morning and welcome to Our Daily Walk.

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We live in a great country with a diversity of climates and scenes. Many people have traveled to the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Mount Rushmore and other places of interest. They have witnessed majestic scenes of beauty, both natural beauty and man made beauty. At some locations, like Niagara Falls, when night comes, huge colorful lights illuminate the attraction. But it isn’t as majestic as when it is shown in God’s light.

John Clements took a trip from New York to California in 1898. He was able to see many great places as he traveled by train. He traveled from the Atlantic Ocean, over the mountains, across the plains of the Midwest, over the Rocky Mountains and finally to the Pacific Ocean. His journey was something that most people today would never undertake.

At the end of his journey he sat gazing on the beautiful sunset overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The scene was so beautiful that he was afraid to turn away and said, “Darkness will soon follow and this great spectacle will disappear.”

That became the inspiration for the song, “No Night There.” Listen to the first verse and chorus of that song.

In the land of fadeless day,

Lies the city foursquare;

It shall never pass away,

And there is no night there.

God shall wipe away all tears;

There’s no death, no pain, nor fears;

And they count not time by years,

For there is no night there.

The beauty of a sunrise brings hope to all who witness it. It dawns a new day, a new time of opportunity, a new time of work. But that day soon fades and can never be retrieved or relived again.

Happy is the one who can admire a golden sunset while knowing that the day has been successful. Opportunities have been seized, friendships have been strengthened, spirits have been fed and the day has been productive.

In the song, Clements talks of the gates of pearl, the streets of gold, the gates that never close and the crystal river. There is no need of sunlight there because the Lamb is the light of that great place.

Listen to this description in Revelation 21:22-25.

But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there)

In that great place there will be no tears, no death, no pain and no fears. Nightfall will never come. Darkness will stay away eternally. Heaven will be a great place to call home!

On Our Daily Walk today, may we seek to share the gospel with someone today before the sun sets on this day. May we thank God each day for the great gift of life and the privilege of living.

Our thought for the day: “We must live for Christ here if we would live with Him hereafter.”

May God bless you on your daily walk.

© Our Daily Walk, Mike Baker, 2007. Permission is granted to copy these articles provided they are not sold and the author's name and copyright are included.