Whatever commitments it might involve. You and I have got to be standing among the redeemed as our Redeemer and Hero and King and Savior and Friend steps forward to receive that crown and to be exalted to the highest place. A new beginning was possible. Sin is gone. Suffering is over with.
Death is banished forever.
Every sickness, every lonely pang, every funeral, every memory of cemeteries and car accidents and rape and theft and murder . . . gone forever. The long national nightmare will be over at last, because Jesus is crowned as our King. Over there in the Netherlands on that Thursday night, Chief Justice Warren Burger knew that he absolutely HAD to get back. Whatever it took. Whatever it cost.