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Psalm 11615, precious in the sight of the Lord

is the death of his Saints.

What a powerful, beautiful, yes sobering,

but awesome verse,

that the death of Saints is precious

in the sight of the Lord.

I just immediately think of all kinds of Saints who I have seen breathe

their last breath and go to be with the Lord and their death while sorrowful and

sad and oh just agonizing I'm just thinking about more and more people right now including

people really close to me I praise God that he has made death precious. I can think about my mother-in-law. For years,

my wife and I tried to share the gospel with her and she knew the gospel. She knew it, she'd heard it.

She'd grown up hearing it in many ways, but there was no fruit of the gospel in her life, like yes, much

much grace in her life in so many ways and flowing through her life, but no real desire for Jesus, desire for church, desire to share the gospel,

and we just prayed and prayed and prayed for years and shared and shared and shared for years.

And then, finally, just almost out of the blue, all of a sudden.

She, through a variety of different circumstances,

started reading her Bible,

and her heart was kindled toward God and she experienced regeneration. I don't even

know when the moment was but she became a new creation. God changed her heart. God drew her to faith in Christ

and she had a longing for Christ, like diving into his word, sharing the gospel,

just a totally different life, gathering together with the church, growing in Christ.

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