(THE INEXPRESSIBLE JOY OF
DYING IN CHRIST)
Death
is merely stepping through the door between earth-life and God-Life, a change
of clothes from flesh to glory, a change of time zones from the finite of three
score and ten to timeless forever! When a saint dies, those who are alive and
remain may be tempted to “lose hope”, but this is the very time for our hope to
be renewed. The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy our hope -- he has no
real power – because he knows faith is the substance of our hope. We cannot
have faith without hope, so our hope must always be in the eternally God and
His eternal promises, producing strong faith the enemy can’t touch. Nothing can
separate us from God’s love... death just takes us home to our Daddy. To be
absent from the body is to be in the presence of our Lord: Inexpressible, glorious
joy unknowable in earth-life awaits every saint as we step through deaths door
into forever with our Lord . Earth-life is but an obstacle course we run, ever
pressing toward the high calling of God-Life – spiritual transformation – while
homeward bound from birth. Life is only a nanosecond long if that, it only
seems longer because we live in time, but step into eternity and it appears as
a heartbeat... just one heartbeat long. And we who are alive and remain...
well, we will be together again with our loved ones who have stepped through
the door... soon and very soon! So be of good courage and rejoice when a saint
goes home, no matter the circumstances... Rejoice! Herein our hope remains
strong and our faith is increased.
“PRECIOUS
IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD
IS THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS”
Post Script: “A CHANGE OF CLOTHES: “For we
who are in this tent (of flesh)
groan, being burdened ... earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven ... a building
from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens ... that
mortality may be swallowed up by life (eternal life).” Saints, if you aren’t
groaning for heaven... you should be...
(2
Cor. 5:1-8)
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