The Life and Dying of Mientje Vrijdag (2)

Oh, Mientje Vrijdag was as a watered garden when she related how that between God as a righteous Judge, the Mediator and Surety Christ Jesus came forward, and that she was reconciled with a holy and righteous God in Christ. She was cleansed in His blood. She could own Him as her Saviour and Deliverer as well as her blood Bridegroom. All her sins were washed away eternally and reconciled. Then she was often above all things here below. When she spoke about this, she could experience completely Lord’s Day 1. The Father gave her the Son, and the Son brought her to the Father as Surety. Then she could testify with such feeling: “But now no more shall Israel wait, no more the Gentiles lie forlorn, lo, the desire of nations comes.” The Father received her out of the hand of the Surety. In this way she received a place in the heart of God the Father. The Spirit sealed and testified with her spirit that she was a child of God. So, she had as her portion all that the Mediator had merited, and she was very young when she was given to lose herself in a Triune God as her covenant God. Oh, how she could speak so respectfully about the three godly Persons. All of God’s people and all of His servants could testify of that. I can only stammer about her way and her life. She had a homecoming in the heart of the Father. “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it” (Revelation 2:17b).

Oh, that life as a child of God is so precious, and what makes the matter even more excellent is that she also was endowed with the grace of humility and simplicity. She was low in self-abasement, active through faith as a fruit of the ongoing discovering and uncovering of self. The Father had brought her to Christ by His Spirit with all of the benefits to be administered and kept—yea, to live out of Him and through Him. Without the Lord she could do nothing. Through grace she understood that “the lower by the ground, the closer to the covenant” and to live out of that eternal covenant through the administration of Word and Spirit. In this manner she had lost the ground in all things. She also had the ability to draw out her path in the way of sanctification. In that she was very evangelical by working outside of herself.

She was united in marriage to Jan ter Haar, a child of the Lord. They were a God-fearing couple. They were bound together with double bonds—to each other and a Triune God. Her husband was also very privileged upon the way of life. Together they served to the honor of God. They lived very happily for several months, but sadly her husband became ill and died after a short illness. His life was broken down because of bleeding from the lungs. Upon his sickbed, which became his deathbed, he was able to freely and joyfully testify of the hope he had for eternity. His sickbed was heavenly. With much room and joy, he left this earth and was taken up to his heavenly home.

I have heard much about it from our beloved Mientje during her lifetime. Just a short time ago they were confirmed in holy marriage by Rev. van Neerbosch who used Lord’s Day 9 as the basis of his message. She received this message as a passport for her married life from her heavenly Father. This would be of such a benefit to her in the tribulations which would come as such a young widow in this vale of tears and sorrows. Her husband had departed only a short time ago when a baby boy was born. He is now already thirty-two years old. Oh, what an eternal blessing it would be if the Lord would have mercy upon him by arresting and converting him. Then there would be a walking in the footsteps of his godly parents. Oh, that the separation would not be an eternal one. He has not known his father, but the mother often warned her son and bent her knees to pour out her heart and her sorrow. Oh, son of such parents, and you children of such parents, what will your end be when missing this salvation. Also, my offspring, and the offspring of all of God’s children, one day you will see them glorified at God’s right hand in that great Judgment Day.

Oh, that your heart would be filled with holy jealousy. Call out mightily to the God of your parents. Walk through grace in their footsteps. Soon we will come together before the awesome Lord Jesus and His exalted throne. The Son of Man will send out His angels and they will gather together all those who vex Him and those who commit iniquity. He shall cast them in the fiery oven where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Oh, children, turn to the God of your fathers. Who knows what may happen? He could turn unto you out of free and sovereign grace and grant you the benefit bestowed upon your parents. Now they are above, delivered and joyful in God. Do you still think of all of their warnings, prayers, and upbringing? That will all come back to you…but I digress. Those blessed souls are eternally happy. In the next issue, we will to return to the life of Mientje.

(To be continued)

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