Recently I have found myself in the middle of some very difficult circumstances, ministering to a family dealing with a difficult loss and then in my own family, losing my grandmother this week.
We aren’t comfortable with death. It seems that every culture we study has some concept of deity, whether it is based on biblical revelation or not. I believe this is clear evidence that God has indeed written eternity in the heart of man (Eccl 3.11). Death was a result of the curse after sin entered the world in Genesis. As Christians, we must focus our thoughts towards eternity and the day that will come where we’ll no longer have to experience the pain of death.
Paul reminds us in I Corinthians that the temporary pain that life presents should rive our thoughts toward eternity and the perfection that we will enjoy there (I Cor 4.16-18). Too often we focus only on the temporary circumstances of life and we forget to think about the big picture.
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