The Greatest Blessing

    An old timer wrote: "My friend, you may think to live very well without Christ, but death will be unbearable without him. You are confident and secure at present, but death will destroy your confidence. Your tree is fair and strong now; but when the wind comes, if your root is not in the Rock of Ages, down your tree must come forever. You may think these worldly pleasures and ways of flesh are so good; but when your years increase and you reach the bottom of this poisoned bowl, they will be as bitter as wormwood; and worse than gall shall be the daintiest of your drinks."

    When I read this, I gave thanks to our Lord for delivering us from "this body of death through our Lord Jesus Christ," and old age and death are no longer to be feared but desired; that death is no longer the loss of life and joy, but the gain of eternal life and glory. While we mourn the temporary absence of our dear loved ones whom the Lord has been pleased to take to glory, we do not sorrow as those who have no hope; for we know, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his people" (Psa. 116:15), and leaving this world and going to be with Christ is the greatest blessing of all the blessings!