His Death is the shadow over us

While searching through the treasury of the Dead Brethren Writers I came to this quote about Psalm 23, and the "shadow of death":

There is a greater death than ours to hearts that know the Lord. Surely it is the shadow of His death, the death of Psalm 22, that lies upon the whole scene of this world. The world in which our Lord was crucified is the valley of the shadow of death. Oh! for hearts to be more affected by His death. How far has the whole scene here closed for us, enwrapped in the shadow of that greatest death of all? What is there then left for us? "THOU art with me." It is the Shepherd Himself, proved more to the heart than all His precious care. He is more than all He can give. When the soul reaches this in its growth, shut up to Himself in a world closed to it by His cross, it is not merely that "I shall not want," but "my cup runneth over." He has brought us into the reality and blessedness of His own experience He Himself who once as man on earth could say, the Lord is the portion of my cup," now fills that cup to overflowing for us. John Alfred Trench

Dwell on that for a while, if death has come close to you at any time.