“He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears… In that day the people will proclaim, ‘This is our God! We trusted in Him, and He saved us! This is the Lord, in whom we trusted. Let us rejoice in the salvation He brings!’” (Isaiah 25:8-9 NLT)
The reality of death is with us. We face it as and who we are. It is at this juncture that those who are Christians, those who are in Christ, reveal their faith which is their character.
“Death,” Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in his Letters and Papers from Prison, “is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.” Such confidence in death as access to the fuller presence of God can only come from a conviction that our lives are hidden with Christ in God -- with Christ who is the incarnation of persisting, caring grace -- and in God who is the sovereign Lord of life before and beyond death.
-- Thomas A. Langford in “Christian Wholeness”
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