Dying Grace and Strength by Maria
Sandberg, 1880, read by Christopher Glenn Many, including genuine Christians,
suffer much due to the fear of death. But let us meditate on
this assurance of our Saviour, and see if faith in His blessed
words will not chase away some portion, at least, of that fear
of death which is so natural to man. I am the living one,
I died, but look, I am alive forever and ever, and I hold
the keys of death and the grave. Revelation 1.18 Jesus your Savior
has the keys of death and the grave, that is of the unseen
world. O believer, you have trusted
your Saviour often, and will you not trust Him yet again?
You have trusted in Him and have not feared coming trials, and
will you not trust Him for dying grace and strength? He died to
take away sin, the sting of death. He lives, yes, he is alive forevermore
to be with his people in their last hour and to give them victory
over their last enemy, Death! How often does he give a visible
triumph to his servants in a dying hour! Fears are taken away, joy
abounds, and Jesus is present to conduct them over the river
of death. Fear not, then, O timid soul! Do not be anxious about dying. Jesus will give dying grace to
his dying people. Jesus, your Savior, has the keys
of death and the grave. Trust in him who died for you,
but is alive forever and ever. The last enemy to be destroyed
is death, 1 Corinthians 15.26. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin. But thanks be to God, He gives
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15,
55-57 He will swallow up death forever. The sovereign Lord will wipe
away all tears. Isaiah 25, 8. Our Savior, Christ
Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality
to light through the gospel. 2 Timothy 1, 10. Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Revelation 14.13