Our Days Are Certain To GOD, But They Are Uncertain To Us.

A great change!
(Thomas Watson, "Until My Change Comes")

"All the days of my appointed time 
will I wait until my change comes." 
Job 14:14

That is, I will wait until 

my death comes. 

Death, whenever it comes, 

makes a great change.

Death will make a certain change; 

there is no avoiding it. 

"No one can live forever; 
all will die. No one can escape 
the power of the grave!" 
Psalm 89:48. 

It is neither strength, nor courage, 

nor any worldly grandeur--

which can exempt from death. 

The godly must die, as well as others. 

Though death does not destroy 

the treasure of grace--

yet death breaks the vessel 

that this treasure is in.

We are not so sure to lie down 

in our beds--

as we are to lie down 

in our graves!

Our days are certain to GOD--

but they are uncertain to us. 

The LORD alone, knows how long 

our hour-glass will be running. 

For all we know, there are 

but a few sands more to run. 

Life may expire in an instant. 

When we breath out--

we never know whether we will 

ever take a breath in again! 

Death will make a visible change. 

One scarcely knows their friends, 

they are so disfigured by death! 

The eyes are hollow, the jaws 

are fallen; death carries away 

all the goodly spoil of beauty. 

It changes a living body, into 

a foul carcass, 

"You make his beauty to consume 
like a moth." Psalm 39:11

Take a body of the finest spinning, 

once death like a moth gets into it, 

it consumes all the luster and glory 

of it. Death puts the body into 

such a frightful state--

that nothing can desire it but worms!

Death will make an unalterable 

change. As the tree falls--

so it lies to eternity. Death is 

a change which puts us into 

an unchangeable condition!

"It is appointed unto men once to die--

and after that to face judgment!" 

Hebrews 9:27

  
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