mysteries can only be wisely dealt with in one way. Take them to Him,
tell Him about them. Told to Him, they often dwindle. They become
smaller when they are looked at beside Him, and He will help us to
understand as much as may be understood, and patiently to wait and
leave the residue unsolved, until the time shall come when 'we shall
know even as we are known.'

In the context here, Jesus Christ does not explain to the disciples
the precise point that troubled them. Olivet and Pentecost were to do
that; but He gives them what will tide them over the time until the
explanation shall come, in triumphant hopes of a joy and peace that
are drawing near.

And so there is a great deal in all our lives, in His dealings with
us, in His revelation of Himself to us, that must remain mysterious
and unintelligible. But if we will keep close to Him, and speak
plainly to Him in prayer and communion about our difficulties, He
will send us triumphant hope and large confidence of a coming joy,
that will float us over the bar and make us feel that the burden is
no longer painful to carry. Much that must remain dark through life
will be lightened when we get yonder; for the vision here is not
perfect, and the knowledge here is as imperfect as the vision.

Dear friends! the one question for us all is, Do our eyes fix and
fasten on that dear Lord, and is it the description of our own whole
lives, that we see Him and walk with Him? Oh! if so, then life will
be blessed, and death itself will be but as 'a little while' when we
'shall not see Him,' and then we shall open our eyes and behold Him
close at hand, whom we saw from afar, and with wandering eyes, amidst
the mists and illusions of earth. To see Him as He became for our