What a superlatively grand and
consoling idea! By John Foster. Job chapter 16
verse 22 Only a few years will pass Before I go on the journey
of no return. Philippians 1.21 For to me, to
live is Christ, and to die is gain. What a superlatively grand
and consoling idea is that of death! Without this wondrous
hope of death, life would darken into midnight melancholy. Oh,
the expectation of living always on this sin-cursed earth would
indeed be a prospect of overwhelming despair. But thanks to God for
that fatal decree which dooms us to die. Thanks to that gospel
which opens up the vista of a glorious and endless life. And thanks,
above all, to that Savior Friend who has promised to conduct all
the godly through the sacred trance of death into scenes of
paradise and everlasting delight. William Mason. Christian, death
cannot hurt you. Death is your best friend, who
is commissioned by Christ to summon you from this poor world
of vanity and woe, to the blissful regions of glory and immortality,
to meet your precious Lord Jesus, and to be forever with Him. Philippians
chapter 1 verse 23. I desire to depart and be with
Christ, which is better by far. Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord. Revelation chapter 14 verse 13
You will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures
at your right hand. Psalm chapter 16 verse 11