A collage of the Heidelberg Catechism Q&A #1 and Isaiah 40:
What is your only comfort in life and in death?
That I am not my own, but belong- body and soul, in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ...
Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.
Comfort, O comfort my people, says our God. A voice cries out: In the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the guest of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in balance?
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? It is God who sits above the circle of the earth, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in. The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. God does not faint or grow weary; the Lord's understanding is unsearchable. The Lord gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even the young will faith and be weary, they will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord- who hope in the Lord- shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not be faint.