Death & Dying

Evening, June 4

1Ti 3:16

… above all—that which he has well earned in the fight against sin, death, and hell. As victor he wears the illustrious crown. Hark how the song swells …

Morning, June 28

Heb 12:2

… If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by “looking unto Jesus.” Keep thine eye simply on him; let his death …

Morning, July 24

Ex 14:13

… His divine fiat has bid thee go from strength to strength, and so thou shalt, and neither death nor hell shall turn thee from thy course. What, if …

Morning, September 29

Le 13:13

… Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is the true leprosy, but when sin is seen and felt it has received its death blow, and the Lord looks with eyes of …

Morning, November 8

Col 2:6

… When I receive Jesus, he becomes my Saviour, so mine that neither life nor death shall be able to rob me of him. All this is to receive …

Morning, January 1

Jos 5:12

… Unbelief shudders at the Jordan which still rolls between us and the goodly land, but let us rest assured that we have already experienced more ills than death …

Evening, October 26

Ec 1:7

… change and death rule everywhere. The sea is not a miser’s storehouse for a wealth of waters, for as by one force the waters flow into it …

What Jesus Would Do

Matthew 23:37

… This text says the very opposite—and so far as it is applicable to the sons of men in general, it declares that God wills not the death …

Evening, October 14

Ro 12:2

… Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner climbs the rocks of his …

Evening, February 11

Rev 2:4

… In life and in death let me be consecrated to thee.” How have we kept this resolve ? Our espousal love burned with a holy flame of devoutedness to …

Evening, October 5

Mk 16:16

… The outward sign saves not, but it sets forth to us our death, burial, and resurrection with Jesus, and, like the Lord’s Supper, is not to be …

Evening, August 26

Mk 9:15

… He bore the wrath of God, and in his death revealed more of God’s justice than Sinai on a blaze, but that justice is now vindicated, and …

Morning, September 2

Mk 1:30

… avails not, we must meekly bow to his will by whom life and death are determined. The tender heart of Jesus waits to hear our griefs, let us …

Evening, December 29

Mt 22:42

… your soul is sick—God grant that it may not be sick unto death! But if the first thought of your spirit has been, how can I honour …

With the Disciples on the Lake of Galilee

Matthew 8:27

… But now, having been saved, having passed from death unto life—and having been preserved for years upon the sea of life in the midst of many storms …

Evening, February 1

2Sa 1:26

… Thy love restrained me from committing the sin which is unto death, and withheld me from self-destruction. Thy love held back the axe when Justice said, “Cut …

Evening, March 10

Job 14:1

… We should love, but we should love with the love which expects death, and which reckons upon separations. Our dear relations are but loaned to us, and the …

Good Works

… exercised upon us, from the time of conversion even until the hour of death. Ah, Christian, thou wouldst have no good works if thou hadst no fresh grace …

Evening, January 30

Eph 1:11

… All the glorious consequences of his obedience unto death are the joint riches of all who are in him, and on whose behalf he accomplished the divine will …

Evening, April 27

Ps 10:16

… reigns over heaven, and earth, and hell, with the keys of life and death at his girdle. Certain princes have delighted to call themselves kings by the popular …

Evening, February 28

1Ki 17:16

… famine, and desolation, and death, made the land a howling wilderness, but this woman never was hungry, but always joyful in abundance. So shall it be with you …

Morning, June 12

Da 5:27

… Have you ever cried out as he did—“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Have you ever felt …

Morning, December 30

Ec 7:8

… That caterpillar is yourself, until you are wrapped up in the chrysalis of death; but when Christ shall appear you shall be like him, for you shall see …

Evening, November 17

Ec 10:9

… We refer not to hazards by flood and field, or by disease and sudden death, but to perils of a spiritual sort. Your occupation may be as humble …

Pleading

Psalm 70:5

… Let this be the doleful ditty of thine inmost heart— “Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just in death And, if my soul were …

Morning, February 3

Ro 8:12

… Consider what you owe to his power ; how he has raised you from your death in sin; how he has preserved your spiritual life; how he has kept …

Evening, May 19

1Ki 19:4

… in a chariot of fire, and be translated, that he should not see death—should thus pray, “Let me die, I am no better than my fathers.” We …

Evening, May 27

2Sa 9:8

… A dog may be a worthless animal, and yet by a little kindness it is soon won to love its master, and is faithful unto death; but we …

'And It Was So'

Genesis 1:7

… on such the second death has no power." There are no bonds of death that can hold the saints in their graves when the Lord descends at the …

Morning, April 21

Job 19:25

… Like wasps they sting the soul! If I have any suspicion that Christ is not mine, then there is vinegar mingled with the gall of death; but if …

Evening, October 30

Song 8:13

… O that I were a partaker of their joys! It is true some of these are poor, others bedridden, and some near the gates of death, but O …

Morning, November 23

1Jn 1:6

… We are not nailed to the cross, nor do we die a cruel death, but when he is reproached, we are reproached; and a very sweet thing it …

Evening, November 24

Pr 24:33-34

… As an armed man enters with authority and power, so shall want come to the idle, and death to the impenitent, and there will be no escape. O …

Secondhand

John 18:34

… Put them all side by side and you will not know one from the other! There are always the same essential marks—death, birth, life, food—Christ in …

Evening, April 19

Rev 3:14

… divorce; your Friend, sticking closer than a brother; your Shepherd, with you in death’s dark vale; your Help and your Deliverer; your Castle and your High Tower …

Morning, October 23

Jn 6:67

… bed in our sickness? When we die, is it not written that “neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate …

Morning, March 25

Lu 22:48

… I do love thee, Jesus, and though I often grieve thee, yet I would desire to abide faithful even unto death. O God, forbid that I should be …

Evening, April 6

Ps 118:12

Evening, April 6 Go To Morning Reading “In the name of the Lord I will destroy them.” Psalm 118:12 Our Lord Jesus, by his death, did not …

Evening, November 25

Ro 9:15

… As the prerogative of life and death is vested in the monarch, so the Judge of all the earth has a right to spare or condemn the guilty …

Evening, April 1

Ho 10:12

… Did I observe a little grey mingled with your once luxurious tresses? Years are stealing on apace, and death is drawing nearer by hasty marches, let each return …