Death, Welcoming
Death is a welcomed messenger bringing believers to eternal rest and peace with God.
A child at school welcomes every messenger from home to him; but he desires most the messenger that comes for him. Joseph sends to Jacob, and for him, at once; and his father not only heard the words, but saw the wagons. "Oh! these are really to carry me to him: I shall soon see my son, and die in peace." Such a messenger, Christian, is death to you. "Come," says God: "you have toiled long enough, you have feared long enough, you have groaned long enough; your warfare is accomplished; enter the rest which the Lord your God giveth you. Come; for all things are now ready." "But the swelling river rolls between." Fear not. The ark of the covenant will go before you, and divide the waves, and you shall pass over dry-shod. And then let the streams reunite, and continue to flow on, you will not wish them to re-open for your return. What is misery to others is joy to you. "I shall go the way whence I shall not return." W. Joy.