Life is unpredictable. It is filled with surprises that make us smile and disappointments and heartaches that pierce us through the core. We cannot expect that life is going to be easy or pleasant. In fact, the Lord tells us just the opposite. John 16.33 says, “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” The good news is IN HIM we may have peace and that’s key.
The one thing in this world that we can predict is death. Most of us don’t want to think of our own mortality, so we live here like this is the main event. How different might our experiences be if we lived here like this was only the prelude to the main event? If we are in Christ, we have already passed from death into life—an Eternal Life—that begins at the moment of faith and extends into the next world. Death has no hold on the child of God. While our physical bodies die, we are so much more than an earthly container; we are a spirit that has a soul that will take up residence outside of time. Death for us is merely a change in geography. We need to live life with the perspective of eternity, because that’s our reality!
Death To Life