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Psalm 116:12-19
Psalm 116:12-19
Death is a subject that few people really want to talk about and yet Psalm 116 verse 15 says, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.” Now this statement is often misunderstood so we better think about it, ponder it, and see what it means to our lives today. Psalm 116 verse 15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.”
To begin with, it does not mean that God enjoys it when His people die. In fact, God doesn’t enjoy it when anyone dies. Death is the wages of sin. God is the Author of life. When God made this original creation, there was no death. Ah, but when man sinned, death came on the scene and today death is reigning like a king. “And it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgement:” (Hebrews 9:27). No it doesn’t mean that God enjoys a person’s death. “I have no pleasure,” says the Lord, “in the death of the wicked” (Ezekiel 33:11). Certainly God does not enjoy it when unsaved people die because He knows they go out into a Christless, dark eternity.
Nor does God enjoy it when His own people die. Jesus stood at the grave of Lazarus and He wept. What it means is this: the death of God’s children is so precious to Him, it will not be an accident. When you read Psalm 116, you discover that he, the psalmist, was brought low. He almost died, verse 3, “The sorrows of death compassed me, the pains of the grave got a hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.” He was going to die and then he cried out to God. And God said, “Your death is so precious to me, I will not allow you to die just by accident.”
That means that every saint who goes home to be with the Lord, his death is not an accident, it is an appointment. We are immortal until our work is done. That, to me, is a real encouragement. There’s a lot of danger in this world. There’s so much that can come but God says, “Your death is too precious for Me to permit it to just happen.” No no, death for the believer is a precious experience because Jesus bore our sins on the cross. He is our life.
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Death is a subject that few people really want to talk about and yet Psalm 116 verse 15 says, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.” Now this statement is often misunderstood so we better think about it, ponder it, and see what it means to our lives today. Psalm 116 verse 15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.”
To begin with, it does not mean that God enjoys it when His people die. In fact, God doesn’t enjoy it when anyone dies. Death is the wages of sin. God is the Author of life. When God made this original creation, there was no death. Ah, but when man sinned, death came on the scene and today death is reigning like a king. “And it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgement:” (Hebrews 9:27). No it doesn’t mean that God enjoys a person’s death. “I have no pleasure,” says the Lord, “in the death of the wicked” (Ezekiel 33:11). Certainly God does not enjoy it when unsaved people die because He knows they go out into a Christless, dark eternity.
Nor does God enjoy it when His own people die. Jesus stood at the grave of Lazarus and He wept. What it means is this: the death of God’s children is so precious to Him, it will not be an accident. When you read Psalm 116, you discover that he, the psalmist, was brought low. He almost died, verse 3, “The sorrows of death compassed me, the pains of the grave got a hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.” He was going to die and then he cried out to God. And God said, “Your death is so precious to me, I will not allow you to die just by accident.”
That means that every saint who goes home to be with the Lord, his death is not an accident, it is an appointment. We are immortal until our work is done. That, to me, is a real encouragement. There’s a lot of danger in this world. There’s so much that can come but God says, “Your death is too precious for Me to permit it to just happen.” No no, death for the believer is a precious experience because Jesus bore our sins on the cross. He is our life.