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Death Cannot Divide Us


 


Read: John 11:14-27


 

 

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in
Me, though he may die, he shall live." - John 11:25

 

 

Although writers and philosophers have done their best to marshal weighty
arguments in favor of life after death, they have not succeeded in bringing
comfort to aching, anxious, questioning hearts.

 

Jesus, however, does not fail to satisfy us.  He brings forth no
philosophical arguments.  He does not try to prove the reasonableness of
immortality; he simply declares it!  He speaks of what he knows, and answers
with the authority of having: "I am the resurrection and the life.  He who
believes in me, though he may die, he shall live" (John 11:25).  This
resurrection has two aspects.  The bodies of the believers will be raised,
and their spirits will also live in heaven.

 

What does this mean for grieving Christians whose believing loved ones have
died?  Death does not sever our love for them, for love belongs to the
spirit and does not to the body.  And when those we love go on a journey,
their thoughts can span the distance as though it were a step, and their
love enfolds us as though they stood beside us.  So it is today with our
dear departed ones.

 

Are you sorrowing over one who has been called to have been?  Jesus promised
that we will be reunited one day, when God gives us back our precious loved
ones. -M. R.  De Haan M. D.

 

When from the dead God raises his son

And called him to the sky,

He gave our souls a living Hope

That they should never die!  - Watts

 

 

Thought for today: Christ has replaced the dark door of death with the
shining date of life.

 

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