A great change!

(Thomas Watson, "Until My Change Comes")  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio

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