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Monday, April 20, 2015

Our Mortal Life Will Come to an End


Verses:  Ecclesiastes 9:1-12

My thoughts about the verses:

How many of you remember the Golden Girls episode where they decide to freeze their heads if they died.  Rose who was facing surgery wanted to be with the girls no matter what.  So they decided that they would all have their heads frozen if they were to die.  Rose coming out of anesthesia and as she does she thinks that she has woken up a hundred years after her death.  In her drug induced state all four of them have had their heads thawed.  Yet only Sophia who tipped the person that was freezing the heads has a new body.  If you haven’t seen the episode or especially this scene I would suggest it. 

Haven’t we all at one time or another wished that our loved ones would not pass away?  We want this to be with us forever.  Yet, no matter how good you are.  No matter how bad you have been.  No matter what you did in life.  We all face the same end...Death.

Death comes in many different ways.  Some people live a long healthy life and one day they just do not wake from their sleep.  Others die tragically from the hands of others.  Other people die after long illnesses.  There are people who die when they are old.  There are people who die as infants. 

The hardest things about all these situations are the people that are left behind.  The person who died doesn’t have to live through the loss and pain that loved ones feel because they have passed on.  Yet, there is something that you will see different by families who know their loved ones accepted Christ.  They have an inner peace.  It doesn’t mean that they don’t grieve.  The difference is they know that if they too have Christ that they will one day join their loved one.

Those that have Christ in their life have the same peace.  They are ready at any time to go home.  They spend their time doing thing for others.  They are not worried about death.  They face their death in a different way. 

Those that do not know Christ do not have inner peace.  Many times they are totally obsessed with death.  In fact, they would love to have their head frozen so that they could live forever.  They have a harder time when their loved ones die.  They mourn because they do not understand the peace that comes from being a Christian. 

The one thing that we need to learn is that even though we die her on earth we can live eternally.  When we accept Jesus in our life we receive salvation from all the transgressions that we ever did or will do.  We are promised that we will join God in Heaven.  We are promised a life of joy.  This life may not be here on Earth.  We are insured it will be in our afterlife.

I do want to share that this blog and scripture is something to be depressed about.  It is actually a call to action.  This is a call to accept Jesus so that you can receive the gift of everlasting life.  We all are offered the gift yet only those that accept it will receive it.

Prayer:

We praise you God.  We thank you for the inner peace that you freely give us.  We ask that you help us accept your gift of eternal life.  We ask that you move within our friends and family so that they will come to know you.  In the name of the Risen Savior we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Are you worried about your death?  Have you accepted God in your life?  Do you feel the inner peace that comes from knowing Jesus as your Savior?


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