The Second of January

I WILL RANSOM THEM --- Hosea 13:14 & Colossians 2:15

"I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction." --- Hosea 13:14.

(Christ) having spoiled principalities and powers, made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. --- Colossians 2:15.

The world is afraid of a hidden poison where there is none. The real hidden poison is sin, which the Lord granted me to fear everywhere: for it has infected all things and all places.

But oh, my dear Saviour, thou being my all sufficient preservative and antidote, in all places, oh, dwell in me continually, and increase thou my faith, that I may know thee and enjoy thee more and more. Take away all slavish fears of death and hell from my soul, for thou hast conquered both for me.

Hosanna to the Prince of light
That clothed himself in clay;
Enter'd the iron gate of death,
And tore the bars away.

Death is no more the king of dread
Since our Immanuel rose;
He took the tyrant's sting away,
And spoil' our hellish foe.

Now holy triumphs of the soul
Shall death itself outbrave;
Leave dull mortality behind,
And fly beyond the grave.