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 sanctifies me."
• Savior — we belong to a great Person who is our Redeemer, Deliverer, Substitute, Intercessor.

He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood, and has set me free from all the power of the devil. 

He also preserves me in such a way that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, all things must work together for my salvation.

Therefore, by His Holy Spirit He assures me of eternal life and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live for Him.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 14:7-9 — For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 

I Corinthians 6:20 — You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your body. 

Romans 8:28 — And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 1