A Christian's Comfort
Tomorrow it will be three weeks since my father-in-law's death and 14 years since my father's, with other family members having passed away in between them--one of my aunts in 2000, my husband's grandmother in 2005, one of my uncles in 2005, another of my uncles this year. They ranged in age from 72-102.
When and why does a Christian die?
A Christian's death comes when he has completed the tasks
His Lord asks--
And then comes the rest
And then comes the glory
And then comes the seeing
And death is the means
To life in its fullness for
Life is being with and like Christ.
Death comes, death claims, death alters our lives
And yet
And yet the alteration experienced by believers
Far outweighs any sorrow they know with
The eternal weight of glory of which Paul wrote,
One "far beyond all comparison ... the things which are not seen are eternal" [2 Cor. 4:17-18]
So
Some day, reunited, we will be delighted, as
Neither death not time shall be any more,
We all pass through heaven's door.
Tomorrow it will be three weeks since my father-in-law's death and 14 years since my father's, with other family members having passed away in between them--one of my aunts in 2000, my husband's grandmother in 2005, one of my uncles in 2005, another of my uncles this year. They ranged in age from 72-102.
When and why does a Christian die?
A Christian's death comes when he has completed the tasks
His Lord asks--
And then comes the rest
And then comes the glory
And then comes the seeing
And death is the means
To life in its fullness for
Life is being with and like Christ.
Death comes, death claims, death alters our lives
And yet
And yet the alteration experienced by believers
Far outweighs any sorrow they know with
The eternal weight of glory of which Paul wrote,
One "far beyond all comparison ... the things which are not seen are eternal" [2 Cor. 4:17-18]
So
Some day, reunited, we will be delighted, as
Neither death not time shall be any more,
We all pass through heaven's door.
Labels: A Christian's Comfort