![]() ![]() But some may be reminding the speaker in the silence of their own thought, there are sorrows in life that come to stay. The stormy night full of terrors brought the vision and the morning. That great crisis of yours came, but it “came to pass.” God guided you into the wilderness that He might speak comfortably to you. A reversal of fortune, the failure or death of one who, if not the sharer in your heart’s affections was one whose presence and favour were of great value to you. Well, the thing has come, but remember, like everything else, it has “come to pass.” Or it may be something much more serious than that. So much disappointment and trouble are caused by one screw being loose somewhere. The feeling of irritation that you have under trying circumstances. Childhood, how swiftly gone! Soon the soft limbs grow robust, the hair loses its flaxen tint and youth, with its gaiety, novelty, and romance, it comes so quickly, but it “comes to pass.” And, of course, this is equally true of all that we mean by the word “opportunity.” Thomas a Kempis says, “The wealth of both Indies cannot redeem one single opportunity which you have once let slip.” Every day as it passes takes with it in its hand the opportunities that we have slighted and refused to take. All that comes to us here “comes to pass,” nothing lasts very long, “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” It is true a Christian has an abiding joy, it is joy that springs from an inward life, but joys that are ours through happy circumstances, through successes, recoveries, attainments, meetings, of these it is as true as of their opposites that give us trouble, they “come to pass.” Each period of life comes to pass. Summer and winter, day and night, do not cease, there is perpetual movement. We are not conscious that the earth is moving round the sun, or that it is revolving daily on its axis, yet it is true. But has it ever occurred to you that the phrase is a very suitable one as describing the different events of earthly history and the varied phases of earthly experience? It hints not only that they happen, but that they are so soon over they come, but they “come to pass.” We do not always realise that, but it is always true. “It came to pass after four hundred and thirty years that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt,” and, “It came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took the harp and played with his hand,” and so on. “It came to pass.” The phrase occurs again and again in the Old Testament.
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