Did Christ die the cursed death of the cross for believers? Then though there be much of pain, there is nothing of curse in the death of the saints. It still wears its dart, by which it strikes; but has lost its sting, by which it hurts and destroys. Death poured out all its poison, and lost its sting in Christ, when He became a curse for us.
But what speak I of the harmlessness of death to believers? It is their friend and benefactor. As there is no curse, so there are many blessings in it. Death is yours (1 Cor. 3:22). Yours as a special privilege and favour. Christ has not only conquered it, but is more than a conqueror; for He has made it beneficial, and very serviceable to the saints. When Christ was nailed to the tree, then He said, as it were, to death, which came to grapple with Him there, “O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction”: and so He was, for He swallowed up death in victory, spoiled it of its power. So that now it may frighten some weak believers, yet it cannot  hurt them at all.
If Christ died the cursed death of the cross for us, how cheerfully we should submit to and bear any cross for Jesus Christ? He had His cross, and we have ours; but what are ours compared with His? His cross was a heavy cross indeed, yet how patiently and meekly did He support it! He endured His cross; we cannot endure or bear ours, though they cannot be compared with His.
—John Flavel “The Fountain of Life”