Death Where is Your Victory

This week my mother in law passed away after a short but courageous battle against cancer.  Death and of course taxes have been called the only certainty in this world.  The Bible says that it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment.  Death is our enemy.  We fear death, we hate death we do everything we can to cheat death but ultimately unless Christ comes again first, we will all face death.

The good news is that in Christ death is a toothless enemy.  Death because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ has had its stinger clipped.  Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life, He that believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live.  We believe that because the one we loved, loved Jesus her body may have succumbed to death, but her spirit is alive with Christ, for to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord.  And one day, when Jesus Christ comes in all His fullness, He will raise her body from the grave and make her body new to never die again. That hope has sustained us through these days and allowed her to face death without fear.  The question I have is do you have that hope today?  Think about it.