Beyond The Sunset


The ability to see "beyond the sunset" 
- to anticipate the glories of God's tomorrow -
enables a Christian to live joyfully and victoriously 
in any of life's circumstances.
- Kenneth W. Osbeck -




Beyond the sunset,
O blissful morning,
When with our Saviour
Heav'n is begun.
Earth's toiling ended,
O glorious dawning;
Beyond the sunset
When day is done.




Beyond the sunset,
No clouds will gather,
No storms will threaten,
No fears annoy;
O day of gladness,
O day unending,
Beyond the sunset,
Eternal Joy.




Beyond the sunset,
A hand will guide me
To God, the Father,
Whom I adore;
His glorious presence,
His words of welcome,
Will be my portion
On that fair shore.




Beyond the sunset,
O glad reunion,
With our dear loved ones
Who've gone before;
In that fair homeland
We'll know no parting,
Beyond the sunset
For evermore!
- Virgil P. Brock -




Virgil P. Brock told how he wrote this favorite hymn about heaven. . .

This song was born during a conversation at the dinner table, one evening in 1936, 
after watching a very unusual sunset at Winona Lake, Indiana,
with a blind guest, my cousin Horace Burr, and his wife, Grace.
A large area of the water appeared ablaze with the glory of God,
yet there were threatening storm clouds gathering overhead.
Our blind guest excitedly remarked that he had never seen a more beautiful sunset.

"People are always amazed when you talk about seeing," I told him.
"I can see," Horace replied.
"I see through other people's eyes, and I think I often see more;
I see beyond the sunset."

The phrase "beyond the sunset" 
and the striking inflection of his voice struck me so forcibly
I began singing the first few measures.
"That's beautiful!" his wife interrupted.
"Please go to the piano and sing it."
We went to the piano nearby and completed the first verse.
Before the evening meal was finished, all four stanzas had been written
and we sang the entire song together.




 In my Father's house are many mansions: 
if it were not so, I would have told you. 
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, 
I will come again, 
and receive you unto myself; 
that where I am, there ye may be also.
- John 14:2-3 -


 For our conversation is in heaven; 
from whence also we look for the Saviour, 
the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, 
that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, 
according to the working whereby he is able 
even to subdue all things unto himself.
- Philippians 3:20-21 -


And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; 
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, 
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
- Revelation 21:4 -




Think of stepping on shore and finding it Heaven!
Of taking hold of a hand and finding it God's,
Of breathing new air, and finding it celestial air,
Of feeling invigorated, and finding it immortality,
Of passing from storm and tempest to an unbroken calm,
Of waking up, and finding it Home!
- Unknown -




Have a most beautiful and blessed Lord's Day, friends!

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