October 17, 2013
The Victory
Recently a friend in his 80’s dropped dead from
a heart attack. No ambulance, no hospital, and no nursing home. I have another
friend who is fighting cancer and desperately wants to live, but the prognosis
is for only a few months. Sometimes we believers forget that, just as God has
plans for our life, He also has pre-planned our death. Neither we, nor Death, gets
to choose the time, place, and means for our dying. Our death scenario was
chosen with God’s purpose and our obedience in mind and I wonder what is in
store for my passing from death into life. God didn’t allow Jesus to have a
heart attack or succumbed to cancer, but rather He sent the Lord to the cross. “When the perishable has been clothed with
the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is
written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’ Where,
O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1 Cor 15:54-55
NIV)
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Gail;
-----Excellently stated! From Revelation 17:8 we learn that the names of us dwellers upon earth who worship only the Lord God have been written in His book of life before the foundation of the earth. We know from Revelation 2:17 that we who conquer will be given a new name. Between these two names, we live clutching with white knuckles to the life of a temporal name. Joy flows so much more freely when we broaden our minds to contemplate our other names.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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