O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? — 1 Corinthians 15:55
Do you ever think about your inevitable death? Or are you like the influential theater tycoon Bernard Jacobs, who said, “Of all the things in the world I think least about, it’s what happens after you die. Dead is dead.”
Is that what happens when we exhale our last breath and our brain cells stop functioning? When our life has come to an end, are we totally extinguished like a flame of a candle plunged into water? That’s a common belief. But it isn’t what the Bible teaches. Hebrews 9:27 declares that it is appointed for us “to die once, but after this the judgment.”
If we have received Jesus as Savior from our sins, we need not fear facing Him. We will enter into blessed fellowship with God for all eternity, for we will be “absent from the body and . . . present with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8).
Jesus taught His disciples, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die” (John 11:25-26).
Jesus’ message in the Word of God gives hope when we face our own death or the death of someone we love. He promises that we will enter our heavenly home and be with Him forever. We can count on His word. — Vernon Grounds
“I go to prepare a place for you . . .
That where I am there you may be,”
Our death is not the end of life —
Beyond, with Christ, eternity! — Hess
READ: Hebrews 9:24-28
Jesus’ resurrection spelled the death of Death.
The Bible in one year:
• 1 Samuel 17-18
• Luke 11:1-28