Live Above the World!
"Such a one was caught up to the third heaven…
into Paradise and heard inexpressible words."
2 Corinthians 12: 2-4
William Tennent, a friend of George Whitefield, died one day,
or so it seemed. People gathered for Tennent’s funeral, but the
doctor wasn’t sure he was dead and sent the people home.
The patient thereafter opened his eyes and later explained that
while unconscious, he had envisioned himself in heaven. The
glory was unutterable. Everyone was singing melodiously and
there was a spirit of indescribable joy.
For years afterward, Tennent testified that he felt such a
“sense of divine things” that everything else seemed vain.
“Such was the effect on my mind of what I had seen and heard,
that if it be possible for a human being to live entirely above the
world, and the things of it. . .I was that person.” said Tennent
Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one knows
sleepless nights and deep sorrow. But as a believer, we also
know that during the dark hours we’re not alone.
God’s comfort surpasses understanding.
We anticipate heaven, and that enables
us to live above the world.
"I want to live above the world, though Satan’s darts
at me are hurled; for faith has caught the joyful
sound, the song of saints on higher ground."
Johnson Oatman
