And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do
you believe this?”
“Dad, do you
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and do you accept Him as your
personal Savior?” These were the words that my brother spoke to my father as he
lay in a hospital bed preparing to die. With a nod of his head and a whisper of
yes on his lips, my father had sealed his eternity.
As I write
this week’s blog, my wife is on her way back to our hometown to be with her
mother who is very sick. My wife is helping her mother to prepare for what may
be the twilight of her earthly days. The topic of death is a subject that each
one of us will personally face in our finite day as inhabitants of earth.
Recently I
have observed other people facing the death of their parents as well as other
friends or loved ones. We that are in the midst of a loved one’s death are
faced with many emotions of love and being separated from the people that we
love.
The one
emotion that believers in Jesus Christ can never feel is fear, fear in the unknown,
or fear in saying goodbye to a loved one. When we believe in the Son of God and
bring ourselves into relationship with Him, we have become sealed from death
and the word “fear” is forever taken out of our spiritual
dictionaries.
Thus, or job
and call as believers is to help our loved ones and all those that we encounter
in developing their own Christ relationship. When this relationship is
established we need never fear, we never need say goodbye, but rather say “until
we see each other again”.
Do you
believe this? Yes, because the One who lived, died, and rose again said it!
This is the
promise of God through His Son Jesus Christ.
Pastor Tim.
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