Death refining the Body – Charles Spurgeon

O DEATH! you are no gainer by us, but we shall be mighty gainers by you, for though this poor body shall become worms’ meat, and through and through and through this mortal frame decay shall drive its tunnels and make its solemn ways; though back to dust, eye and arm and hand and brain must moulder, yet not lost, nor in any degree injured, shall the whole fabric be; but as it were filtered, purified by the grave, the fair body shall emerge again. The grave shall be to the believer’s body as the bath of spices in which Esther bathed herself to make herself ready to behold the great King. Corruption, earth, and worms do but refine this flesh, and make it pure according to God’s will, until we shall put it on afresh at his bidding.