"Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment..."
Hebrews 9:27 (NIV)
What are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do next week? What are you going to do next month? What are you going to do next year? What are you going to do ten years from now? Twenty years from now? Thirty years from now? Forty years from now? Hopefully you have answers for each one of those questions. I trust that you have some exciting plans in process; perhaps family times, perhaps fun times. Maybe vacations, maybe even dreams of achievement - some goals of some kind.
Bill Gates has a bucket list (things to do before he dies) and it is reported that on that bucket list is “find the cure for death”. If this report is true, then our esteemed Bill Gates, whose inventions and company have done so much for so many of us, will have joined a group of people that God addressed through Isaiah 3,000 years ago. They thought they had the cure; they had reached a covenant with death, and believed that they were beyond its reach, and yet the Sovereign LORD warns them that they cannot escape death. He says: “As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through. The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.” (Isa 28:19)
As often as it comes...oh friend, it comes often and it seems to take in groups. Morning, day or night, when death comes, you will go. I wonder, does the understanding that you will die bring sheer terror to your soul? O friend, our Lord Jesus came tasted death and defeated it so that we could be free from the fear of death.(Heb 2:15) Trust Him with your life today, rely on Him, look to Him in faith today, and death can be faced with peace, the peace that passes understanding. I love what Charles Swindol says: “A Christian isn’t afraid of death, we just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Well, we will be there - we can’t get out of it, but the Lord will be there with us.
I can’t get you a Youtube link, but there is a movie on Netflix called “The book thief” that is narrated by Death. Well worth the watch just for the perspective on death- it is a good movie too, Wanda encouraged me to watch it with her, and it was time well spent.
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