(Thomas Watson, "Until My Change Comes")

"All the days of my appointed time will I wait
until my change comes." Job 14:14

That is, I will wait until my death comes.

Death, whenever it comes, makes a great change.

Death will make a certain change; there is no
avoiding it. "No one can live forever; all will die.
No one can escape the power of the grave!"
Psalm 89:48

It is neither strength, nor courage, nor any worldly
grandeur--which can exempt from death. The godly
must die, as well as others. Though death does not
destroy the treasure of grace--yet death breaks the
vessel that this treasure is in. We are not so sure to
lie down in our beds--as we are to lie down in our
graves! Our days are certain to God--but they are
uncertain to us. The Lord alone, knows how long our
hour-glass will be running. For all we know, there are
but a few sands more to run. Life may expire in an
instant. When we breath out--we never know
whether we will ever take a breath in again!

Death will make a visible change. One scarcely knows
their friends, they are so disfigured by death! The eyes
are hollow, the jaws are fallen; death carries away all
the goodly spoil of beauty. It changes a living body, into
a foul carcass, Psalm 39:11, "You make his beauty to
consume like a moth." Take a body of the finest spinning,
once death like a moth gets into it, it consumes all the
luster and glory of it. Death puts the body into such a
frightful state--that nothing can desire it but worms!

Death will make an unalterable change. As the
tree falls--so it lies to eternity. Death is a change
which puts us into an unchangeable condition.

"It is appointed unto men once to die--and after
that to face judgment." Hebrews 9:27