“He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces…” Is.25.8 ESV
Yesterday Brenda and I took our yellow lab Maggie to the pet store to get her a new Frisbee for Christmas. A tenderhearted woman came up and started petting her telling us that Maggie looked just like her Lab. When she looked up, we could see the tears in her eyes as she explained that her dog had recently died. After a few moments, she held up her hand, overwhelmed with emotion and sadly walked away. The pains of death visit us all.
In His first coming, Christ tasted death so that in His second, He will swallow it up forever. All our hopes are in Jesus-all of them. And, though we too will one day walk down into death’s valley, we will not walk alone and He is sure to lead us up from it into everlasting Son shine. Or, it just may be that we will be among those alive at His return and never experience death. But those who have this unique distinction will not precede those who have the privilege of going to the grave like Jesus and of coming forth in that same likeness. Nice way to look at it, don’t you think? In either case, we win because He has won. 12/22/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
