"...all wintertime so long as the Savior is away."

It is winter, but today we had 48 degrees and a thrilling trickle of melting snow that said "spring! spring!" Nevertheless, it will get colder again.

My longing for spring reminded me of this wonderful passage from the Memoirs of Robert Murray McCheyne that I read awhile ago.

"In spiritual thing, this world is all wintertime so long as the Savior is away. To them that are in Christ there are some sweet glistenings of his countenance, there are meltings of his love, and the sweet song of the turtledove when His Holy Spirit dwells in the bosom; still it is but wintertime till our Lord shall come. But then, 'to you that fear his name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings.' And if before He comes we should go away to be where He is, still we shall enter into a world of perpetual summer - we shall behold His glory which the Father gave Him. "- Robert Murray McCheyne