Asleep in Jesus

Abraham Kuyper — Asleep in Jesus: Meditations on Death and the Life Beyond, translated from the Dutch by John Hendrik de Vries (1929). Published in 1929, it is in the public domain in the United States (the 95-year term ended in 2025); it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Fifty-two meditations on the state of the believer who has died, each taken from a text of Scripture: the dead in Christ, their clothing, their service and rest before God, the judgment, and the resurrection. The foreword is dated The Hague, 29 October 1902.

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Contents (54)

1. Translator’s Preface
2. Foreword
3. 1. Asleep in Jesus
4. 2. To Be with Christ, Which Is Far Better
5. 3. The Mortal Swallowed Up of Life
6. 4. Clothed Upon
7. 5. Clothed in White Raiment
8. 6. They Are as the Angels
9. 7. In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions
10. 8. They Serve Him Day and Night
11. 9. Walks Among Those Who Stand Before God
12. 10. With a Great Voice
13. 11. The Spirits of Just Men Made Perfect
14. 12. The Spirit of Man Which Is in Him
15. 13. To Be Unbound
16. 14. From the Body of This Death
17. 15. Wipe Away Tears
18. 16. That as He Is So Also Are We
19. 17. To Eat of the Tree of Life
20. 18. Not Hurt of the Second Death
21. 19. The Hidden Manna
22. 20. In the White Stone a New Name
23. 21. Power Over the Heathen
24. 22. And I Will Give Him the Morning Star
25. 23. Clothed in White Raiment
26. 24. A Pillar in the Temple
27. 25. And He Shall Go No More Out
28. 26. And I Will Write Upon Him the Name of My God
29. 27. To Sit in My Throne
30. 28. Arrayed in Fine Linen, Clean and White
31. 29. He That Overcometh Shall Inherit All Things
32. 30. The Riches of the Glory of His Inheritance in the Saints
33. 31. A Rest for the People of God
34. 32. The Things That Can Not Be Shaken
35. 33. Forever Perfected
36. 34. Now I Know in Part
37. 35. Your Life Is Hid with Christ in God
38. 36. And So Shall We Ever Be with the Lord
39. 37. One Plant with Him
40. 38. They Which Follow the Lamb
41. 39. Baptized for the Dead
42. 40. Abraham Is Ignorant of Us and Israel Knows Us Not
43. 41. Who Shall Give Thee Thanks in the Grave?
44. 42. Fashioned Like unto His Glorious Body
45. 43. Before the Judgment Seat of Christ, I
46. 44. Before the Judgment Seat of Christ, II
47. 45. There Shall Be Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth
48. 46. The Earth, and the Works, That Are Therein, Shall Be Burned Up
49. 47. That I Should Bury My Dead
50. 48. The Lord Is Among Them That Uphold My Soul
51. 49. A High Tower
52. 50. That It May Be Committed into Thy Hand
53. 51. And Forget None of His Benefits
54. 52. Unto the Praise of His Glory