but it shall wear a starry crown soon.
Your 'hand' may be filled with cares--
it shall grasp a harp soon, a harp full of music.
Your 'garments' may be soiled with dust now;
they shall be white by-and-by.
Wait a little longer.
Ah! beloved, how despicable our troubles and
trials will seem when we look back upon them!
Looking at them here, they seem immense;
but when we get to heaven,
they will seem to us nothing at all.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. -2 Cor. 4:16-18
- Spurgeon's sermon, "Songs In the Night"