THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST
S. D. K. Roberts
I was thinking, dear brethren, that our time—the time that remains for us—is very short. I expect we often ask ourselves what have we that death cannot take from us? We are down here for such a short time and then we are leaving. What have I got, or what has any one of us got, that death cannot take and which lasts for eternity? We can take the knowledge of God, and we can take an appreciation of Christ, but there is one thing that we can learn about Christ down here that we can never learn in eternity, though we shall see Him in His glory and shall be with Him there.
So I just want to say a very short word about the Lord’s priesthood and particularly how He is able to sympathise, not only with our infirmities but with the pressures of life. Our brother has referred to the sorrows that our beloved brother and sister have gone through in one way and another. We have One to sympathise and to succour us, perhaps particularly in bereavement, the feeling of being left alone, and yet we are not alone. The sorrows of life direct us to the Lord. He went through all things on our account that He might be able to sympathise and succour. If we could get some impression of the sympathy and succour of Christ I believe that we shall look back and feel that the sorrows, pressures and trials of life have not been wasted, for we have learnt something of Christ that can never be learnt in heaven and which will last for eternity.
Word at the burial at Richmond of Mrs E. M. Wakefield of Sunbury
16 November 1984