Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. I. AS THE SUPREME CRISIS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE. This life is a life of changes, of pains, of destructions. But all are dwarfed by that change, that pain, that destruction. 1. Physically. 2. Socially. 3. Spiritually. II. AS AFFIXING THE SEAL TO HUMAN CHARACTER. III. AS THE ENTRANCE INTO NEW FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD (Ecclesiastes 12:7; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:2, 3). To the wicked, such nearness of the soul to God, with all disguises stripped away, must be an embrace of fire; but to those that are the saved of the Lord, an ineffable blessedness. The children are at school now, and the time is often a time of weary waiting; but there shall be the homecoming then! IV. AS THE BEGINNING OF A BOUNDLESS LIFE. The intermediate waiting, be it what it may, shall be but "as a watch in the night." And then? Then a perfect manhood, a perfect world, a perfect progress for ever! The long waiting is all for this crowning joy; the many hindrances and oppositions are but a discipline to prepare for this consummate blessedness; the great salvation finds its full completion in the all-perfect life whose beauty dawns immortal at last. (T. F. Lockyer, B.A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.WEB: Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints. |
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