Eats with Sinners

As of late, I have chewed on the realization that all people on earth contain one event is common. People have tried to conquer it. Armies have tried to run from it. And institutions have tried to overthrow it. But the event always walks away victorious, smiling mischievously. This event I write of is death. I wonder when my last breath will be and what that will entitle. I wonder when I am going to see my Creator and Savior. I wonder…but God does not.

He is not concerned with the issue of death. He does not stay up all night stressing over the question of when someone will die. So, you say, what is He concerned about? He is worried about if we will ever truly live. Matthew 22:33 states, “He is not the God of the dead but of the living” (NIV). He has conquered death, therefore we have life. Death did not even sting or wound Him. 2 Timothy 1:10 says, “but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life” (NIV).

Do people you work with, go to school with, live with, play with, or even go to church with truly live? The dash between the year we were born and died is what God is interested in. We have life through Christ Jesus. The God who gives life to the dead calls you to start living a life passionately sold out for Him. Do not grow old and ponder the question of death, rather grow old and have life.

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