The Lord’s payday
Consider that the saints’ dying-day is to them the Lord’s pay-day. Every prayer shall then have its answer; all hungerings and thirstings shall be filled and satisfied; every sigh, groan, and tear that has fallen from the saints’ eyes shall then be recompensed.
Then they shall be paid and recompensed for all public service, and all family service, and all closet service. Then a crown shall be set upon their heads, and glorious robes put upon their backs, and golden scepters put into their hands; their dying-day being the Lord’s payday, they shall hear the Lord saying to them, ‘Well done, good and faithful servants, enter into your Master’s joy’ (Mat. 15:21).
Then God will make good all those golden and glorious promises that he has made to them, especially these which are here cited (Rev. 2:10, 3:4, 12, 22, and 7:16–17.) Now God will give them gold for brass, and silver for iron, felicity for misery, plenty for poverty, honor for dishonor, freedom for bondage, heaven for earth, an immortal crown for a mortal crown!
A Believer's Last Day, His Best Day