To Find Comfort When Life Is Fragile and Each Will Die
My only comfort is that I will always belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. What is your only comfort in life and death? Comfort — it is a knowledge which comes from placing something good over against something bad. Considering the good, we can endure the bad patiently. The worse the bad is, the greater the comfort need to be. Our comfort is in the context of the greatest evil; sin and death. Comfort is not simply support in the face of uncertainty but it is the assurance of faith which we receive from the gospel. This Gospel teaches us that: First—that my sin and misery are enormous; Second— That God sent His Son to remove sin and death; Third—That I am to live in thankfulness to God. That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. not my own — The believer confesses that his life is not his own. "The Father preserves me, the Son redeemed me, the Holy Spirit sanct...
