Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Dying to live

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Death carries a heavy toll on the heart and mind. We try hard to fight off the feelings and the emotions that come from losing a loved one. We often try to mask the pain and ignore the injury. But the reality is death happens and comes for us all. 10 out of 10 people will die, it is something we cannot escape and something that we all face.

However for those who know Jes
us and long to be with Him, we embrace death because it is in our death we will finally wake up and experience true life (2 Corinthians 5:4). We know we are only "renting" these earthly homes we call a body. Because our true homes have been "bought" and paid in full. Our debt free homes are waiting for us in Heaven. (2 Corinthians 5:1)

And our home cannot be foreclosed on by the "bank of illness", it cannot be broken into and destroyed by our enemy, infested by worry, or rusted by time. Because our builder is our protector and His alarm system is our guarantee that the house is ours (2 Corinthians 5:5)

So we are in good courage, because we are the bride who is temporally separated from the groom. We are the prom date excitingly waiting for door bell to ring. We prepare ourselves to please our groom. We fix our clothing, clean our faces, and prepare our hearts for the eternal date that will begin never end (2 Corinthians 5:6-10).

So yes we may mourn for a while, we may cry and sob. But don't let our tears fool you. Don't let our anguish miss lead you. Because inside we rejoice. Inside we are celebrating. Inside pure JOY! is complete because we know where our sisters and brothers in Christ are. They are not in a casket, they are not in the ground, they are not here. For they are absent from us and present with our Lord! And this current suffering we are feeling is for outweighed by the future glory that awaits us (Romans 8:18).

Stay focused, you can do this.

"In His JOY!"

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