LIFE FOR EVERMORE

LIFE FOR EVERMORE

“The depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head”. (Jonah 2: 5) It is a very real thing to enter into death. It is endlessly blessed to pass through it into life for evermore. If we be dead with Him, we believe that we shall also live with Him. Jonah did not learn life out of death for the salvation of his soul. He was saved, and he was a prophet, but he had to learn death as to himself and life through another, in order that he might be ready to do as his Lord bade him. My will goes when I die. A dead man has no will. I die with Christ, and His life is my life. Then His will is my pleasure. If Jonah had a very dark time, it was followed by a very bright time, and this I desire for you! To lose myself in His death and to find Him as my life for evermore is most blessed. The darkness is past, and eternal joy remains.

^[p. 180] Blessed moment! When death, with all that it entails, is behind you, when Christ is your life - when “in him” and “with him” is before you for evermore!