What comfort may be found in these words! The Lord Jesus has redeemed us with His own precious blood; and having set such a value upon us, and bought us for HIMSELF, He will assuredly keep us till He has us at Home with Himself. None shall pluck us out of His hand. Our life is safe beyond all contingencies, for it “is hid with Christ in God.” “Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.” (Rom. 14:88For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. (Romans 14:8)).
Tossed about as we may be with ever changing circumstances, still, to be entitled to say, “I AM THE LORD’S,” may well keep our souls in abiding peace. It is heaven begun below.
Come what will – painfulness or weariness, poverty or persecution, bonds or imprisonments, fire or flood, still will the sweet words, “I am the Lord’s,” enable us to say, “none of these things move me.”
What strength it will impart, if these words, “I am the Lord’s,” become an abiding thought, running perpetually through our hearts! It will detach us from an evil world. It will keep us calm and patient amidst all its restlessness and strivings, its tumultuous commotions and disturbances. It will raise us above its empty pleasures, and protect us from its dangerous devices. We shall then be anxious about nothing, careful only to please our Father, for whatever troubles may threaten or assail, we can come with confidence, making our requests known to God, and His own PEACE, according to His own Word, “shall keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Death itself is not death to the believer; it is the entrance into life, unhindered by any of its clogs that press us down here in this lower world. Not only will peace be our portion, but JOY will ever be bubbling up, knowing that “He that shall come, will come, and will not tarry,” and then we shall be “forever with the Lord.”