DEATH VERSUS YOU!

Male or female; black or white; rich or poor; good or bad – Death is the one certainty that faces us all.

“Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement.” (Hebrew 9:27)

Sometimes there are appointments in life that we just can’t keep; business executives who couldn’t make it to a meeting; parents who couldn’t get their child to a rugby practice. But there’s one appointment that all of us will have to keep, and that is our appointment with death.

“I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.” (Job 30:23)

Death is departure

When you die, the bible says you go somewhere, as surely as when you go into the departure launge at an airport it is because you are going somewhere. In fact, the bible uses the word ‘departure’ about death.

Goodbye body...

When someone dies, the soul separates with the body, and from that moment on, the body, for which we never have a need, begins to decay.

“For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19)

Hello Heaven...

For those who trust in Christ, however, that’s not the end of the story. For as we slip away from our body and this life, we immediately pass into the glory of heaven and into God’s presence. Christians have a particular responsibility to help and encourage those who have been bereaved.

And in the meantime we are not to sit around twiddling our thumbs, waiting for Jesus to come. We are to live our lives packed and ready to go. Think of each hour as God’s gift to you, to make the most and best of. Plan your life, and stay away from sins because the hour of judgement is near.

Are you ready to die? Have you made peace with God? God urges you, to turn to him now, for it will certainly be too late then.

“In the time of my favour I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2)