DEATH

Death continues to remind us of our fallibility.  While our lives seem to go on and on, there will be an end.  I’ve had yet another one of these reminders in my life recently.  And while I grieve a loss, I am revived to remember those still living in darkness.  I must be diligent to pray passionately for those who are without a Savior, for our sin MUST be atoned.  Without THE Solution to that problem, there is no hope in death. 

As I look at my short commentary in my Bible under death, I find only negative descriptions in reference to it.  Consider:  death encompassed, death for sin, bondage of death, shadow of death, doomed to death, hate God/love death, strong as death, agony of death, wages of sin is death and on and on it goes.  But praise to God, for the believer,  “Death is swallowed up in victory.  O Death, where is your victory?  O Death, where is your sting?  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”  1 Corinthians 15:54-57

Let us who remain NOT let a day go by without praying for those in our lives who do not have a Savior for their sin problem.   It is vital that every death be the constant reminder that earth is truly not our home.  And if by grace, we have been saved, then we must be about the business to which we have been called.