DEATH-CHRISTIAN-TESTIMONIES
The very
happiest persons I have ever met with have been departing believers. The only
people for whom I have felt any envy have been dying members of this very
church, whose hands I have grasped in their passing away. Almost without
exception I have seen in them holy delight and triumph. And in the exceptions
to this exceeding joy I have seen deep peace, exhibited in a calm and
deliberate readiness to enter into the presence of their God.
I am so weak.
I can’t read my Bible. I can’t even pray. I can only lie still in God’s arms
like a little child and trust.
Hudson Taylor
What do you
think especially gives me comfort at this time? The creation! I ask myself,
“Did Jehovah create the world or did I?” He did! Now if He made the world and
all the rolling spheres of the universe, He certainly can take care of me. Into
Jesus’ hands I can safely commit my spirit!
Charles Simeon
I was a
little better than speechless all day. O my God, I am speedily coming to Thee!
Hasten the day, O Lord, if it be Thy blessed will. Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come
quickly.
David Brainerd
You will tell
the others that I am going home a little sooner than I thought. Then tell them
not to talk about the servant but to talk about the Savior.
F.B. Meyer
Earth
recedes. Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no
valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.
D.L.
Moody
Thou. Lord, bruisest me. But
I am abundantly satisfied since it is from Thy hand.
John
Calvin
Weep not for
me, but for yourselves. I go to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will
through the mediation of His blessed son receive me though a sinner; there we
shall meet to sing the new song and remain everlasting happy, world without
end.
John Bunyan
You have been
used to take notice of the sayings of dying men. This is mine: that a life
spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable
and pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
Matthew Henry
[Sarah
Edwards in writing to her daughter Esther at the death of her husband,
Jonathan, said], “My Very Dear Child, What shall I say? A holy and good God has
covered us with a dark cloud. O that we may kiss the rod, and lay our hands on
our mouths! The Lord has done it. He has made me adore his goodness, that we
had him so long. But my God lives; and
he has my heart. O what a legacy my husband, and your father, has left us! We
are all given to God; and there I am, and love to be. Your
ever affectionate mother, Sarah Edwards.”
Edna Gerstner
Jonathan and Sarah: An Uncommon Union, Soli Deo Gloria, p. 233.
Now where is
Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never-failing Friend?
Jonathan Edwards