TGIF
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:3
We were at the dentists and the kids were one by one getting their teeth check and cleaned. I was reading a book while one of the kids was on the chair when someone said - there’s something wrong with the secretary.
I went to the foyer to look and she was in her chair having a seizure. I called the paramedics. After a short time another man began to perform CPR. There was no breath. There was no pulse. Her skin colour had changed profoundly. The paramedics arrived but couldn’t revive her. At some point she had died.
To witness death is a sobering reminder of the reality of life. As the Bible reminds us in several places, we are like grass. There one day and gone the next. Life is fleeting and for some even more so. This is a hard reality of life.
But as I reflected on what I had witnessed. I was turned to thanksgiving. Sin has subjected this world to the futility of death but God has given us a blessed hope in Jesus Christ.
If we trust in Him, though we die, yet we live. This is true for all who believe and woe to me if this brush with death doesn’t compel me to tell more people.
But one day, death will come for me too. But I face that knowledge in certain hope that just as it could not hold Christ, it will not hold me. As we sing, “no guilt in life, no fear in death, this is the power of Christ in me.” We will triumph over death through the power of Christ’s resurrection at work in us and what we look forward to is far greater than the life of this world.
For Today:
Pray: Praise the Father that He is the living God who gives us life. Give thanks for Jesus Christ who rescues us from the sentence of death to eternal life. Ask God for His Holy Spirit to help you and others face death confidently but also tell people about Jesus.
1 Peter 1:3
We were at the dentists and the kids were one by one getting their teeth check and cleaned. I was reading a book while one of the kids was on the chair when someone said - there’s something wrong with the secretary.
I went to the foyer to look and she was in her chair having a seizure. I called the paramedics. After a short time another man began to perform CPR. There was no breath. There was no pulse. Her skin colour had changed profoundly. The paramedics arrived but couldn’t revive her. At some point she had died.
To witness death is a sobering reminder of the reality of life. As the Bible reminds us in several places, we are like grass. There one day and gone the next. Life is fleeting and for some even more so. This is a hard reality of life.
But as I reflected on what I had witnessed. I was turned to thanksgiving. Sin has subjected this world to the futility of death but God has given us a blessed hope in Jesus Christ.
If we trust in Him, though we die, yet we live. This is true for all who believe and woe to me if this brush with death doesn’t compel me to tell more people.
But one day, death will come for me too. But I face that knowledge in certain hope that just as it could not hold Christ, it will not hold me. As we sing, “no guilt in life, no fear in death, this is the power of Christ in me.” We will triumph over death through the power of Christ’s resurrection at work in us and what we look forward to is far greater than the life of this world.
For Today:
- Have you ever witnessed someone dying? How did it affect you?
- Do you fear death? Why/why not?
- Who do you need to tell about Jesus?
Pray: Praise the Father that He is the living God who gives us life. Give thanks for Jesus Christ who rescues us from the sentence of death to eternal life. Ask God for His Holy Spirit to help you and others face death confidently but also tell people about Jesus.
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