Proverbs 14:32 (NIV)
32 When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but
even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.
We don’t like to talk about death; it’s the forbidden
subject of our generation. Yet it’s real for all of us. Sometimes on television
I see motion pictures featuring actors who are no longer living. They seem very
much alive in the picture, but they are dead. Some of them were my personal
friends. Death is real, and when we die, that is a battle we have to fight all
alone. Nobody can be with us in that hour, but David said he had found an
answer that would take the fear of death away. David said that there is an
answer to death, there is a hope beyond death. That hope is centered in the
risen Christ. Paul wrote that to be “absent from the body” is to be “present
with the Lord.” So the fear of death is removed.
Thought for today:
Do I live in fear because I don’t embrace all of Christ?
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