Death puts an end to all changes – Thomas Brooks

(“A Believer’s Last Day, His Best Day”)

A believer’s last day is his best day! Death puts an end to all changes. What is the whole life of a man but a life of changes?

Here on earth, you often change . . .
your joy for sorrow,
your health for sickness,
your strength for weakness,
your honor for dishonor,
your plenty for poverty,
your beauty for deformity,
your friends for foes,
your silver for brass,
your gold for copper.

All temporal things are transitory. Man himself what is he but a mere nothing the dream of a dream, a shadow, a bubble, a flash, a puff!

Now the comforts of a man are smiling but the next hour they are dying.
Now the Lord smiles upon the soul and at another time He frowns upon the soul.
Now God gives assistance to conquer sin but before long the man is carried captive by his sin.
Now he is strengthened against the temptation, in a short while he falls before the temptation, etc.

But death puts an end to all changes. Now the soul shall be tempted no more, sin no more, be foiled no more. Now you may judge by this, that a Christian’s dying-day is his best day.