Tozer for Tuesday

I would not underestimate nor would I in any way try to rise poetically above death or show that death is not something to shock us and startle us and frighten us. I would be a liar if I tried it. But I believe that death is the devil’s last indignity. It is the last ferocious, obscene attack he makes upon the tabernacle of the Holy Ghost. But he can only reach the tabernacle. “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matt. 10:28). That is only the tabernacle, and the devil is not only bad, but he is dirty; and not only dirty, but obscene, hating the people of God with a hatred as old as the centuries and as black as the pit where he will go. Therefore, the devil wants to kill the people of God. He will heap all the indignities he can upon them and he will twist them, break them and make their bodies look terrible.—A.W. Tozer, Living as a Christian, 165