“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV.
“For the wages of sin is death...” Romans 6:23 NIV.
“Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned - ” Romans 5:12 NIV.
Death is an irreversible cessation of biological life that people generally are afraid to face though everyone is destined to finally leave this world with it. For believers in Christ, death is the separation of the soul from the physical body. Everyone knows for a fact that someday our mortal bodies will soon return to the ground but when that time comes though, we do all the best to defy it.
Last February 14th this year, everyone in my workplace was shocked to hear a news that one of the employees (who was actually my former supervisor when I went on study leave) met a car accident and was critically injured. I witnessed how he fought for life. He tried to be strong. He was so aware of what was going around him and of what was being done with his body especially the medical drugs that were injected into his system. He tried to speak in answer to my greeting when we visited him in the hospital. His spirit to live was so strong. Nine days after the accident though, everyone got even more shocked when news spread that he died. He was quoted to have said a day or two before his death that he was so afraid and was so nervous. Death of a loved one is always difficult so that I felt the gruesome struggle of his family in the hospital, during the wake and until the burial.
On the 7th day of the wake, another fellow employee also died of complications leaving our whole Institute mourning for them.
When death strikes in the family, it becomes the worst stage each one has to face. For a believer in Christ though or the saved, death ushers him in the presence of God. Jesus also died. Adam, the first man, also died. Only the difference is Adam died because he was a sinner, and Jesus, who had never sinned, chose to suffer death as a substitute for sinners (Hebrews 2:9, 14-16). In Matthew 28, Jesus triumphed over death and sin and showed His power by rising from the dead on the third day. Because of Christ, death is a defeated foe.
“For the wages of sin is death...” Romans 6:23 NIV.
“Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned - ” Romans 5:12 NIV.
Death is an irreversible cessation of biological life that people generally are afraid to face though everyone is destined to finally leave this world with it. For believers in Christ, death is the separation of the soul from the physical body. Everyone knows for a fact that someday our mortal bodies will soon return to the ground but when that time comes though, we do all the best to defy it.
Last February 14th this year, everyone in my workplace was shocked to hear a news that one of the employees (who was actually my former supervisor when I went on study leave) met a car accident and was critically injured. I witnessed how he fought for life. He tried to be strong. He was so aware of what was going around him and of what was being done with his body especially the medical drugs that were injected into his system. He tried to speak in answer to my greeting when we visited him in the hospital. His spirit to live was so strong. Nine days after the accident though, everyone got even more shocked when news spread that he died. He was quoted to have said a day or two before his death that he was so afraid and was so nervous. Death of a loved one is always difficult so that I felt the gruesome struggle of his family in the hospital, during the wake and until the burial.
On the 7th day of the wake, another fellow employee also died of complications leaving our whole Institute mourning for them.
When death strikes in the family, it becomes the worst stage each one has to face. For a believer in Christ though or the saved, death ushers him in the presence of God. Jesus also died. Adam, the first man, also died. Only the difference is Adam died because he was a sinner, and Jesus, who had never sinned, chose to suffer death as a substitute for sinners (Hebrews 2:9, 14-16). In Matthew 28, Jesus triumphed over death and sin and showed His power by rising from the dead on the third day. Because of Christ, death is a defeated foe.
For the non-believer in Christ or the unsaved, death is an end for the chance to accept God’s gracious offer of salvation. “Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment...” Hebrews 9:27 NIV.
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain..." Revelation 21:4 NIV. How sweet would it be when that time comes for all believers in Christ to enjoy. We shall look forward onto it.
Michael Bronson in BibleHelp.org estimates that there are 153, 000 people who die every day in the whole world or 56.0 million every year. Of this number, how many souls are sure to go home to God and how many would end up the opposite?
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