THE
'D' WORD, Part III
Eccl
7: 2, “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of
feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should
take this to heart”.
Solomon,
King of Jerusalem, tried to look beyond the grave in his beautiful
confessions in Ecclesiastes. Life often does not turn out as we would
like; Solomon remarked that “the race is not always to the swift”.
Our
approach in dealing with the natural fact of death is to ignore it.
We avoid even discussing it until it arrives at the door. How do we
begin to change how we relate to death? Through the Bible, that's
how!
I
used to be absolutely petrified about, you know..........the “D”
word. Today I am completely at peace No more fears, no more
trepidation. I know what is beyond the veil, over the horizon, on the
“other side”. Jesus taught me. By His Word and His promise, that
if I am faithful, believing in Him and in the Father and in the Holy
Spirit, He in turn assures me ever lasting life following the
retirement of this decaying tent that I am wearing.
I
know the beauty, the glory and the wonder that waits immediately
after my last breath on this earth. The scripture 1 Cor 15: 52 to 54
speaks of us trading our perishable bodies for the imperishable,
exchanging the mortal for the immortal, and declaring joyously with
Christ that “.....Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
Truly,
for believers, those who know Christ, he who holds Him in his heart,
them who have called His name, and to those whom He has called, there
is no fear in the earthly death. Only joy as you are welcomed into
the Kingdom of heaven. Can I get an AMEN?
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