Hi Pastor John.
“Since Jesus died the grave has lost its victory.
If you’re in Christ, death has lost its sting.”*
1 Corinthians 15:
54. And when this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death is swallowed up in victory.
55.O Death! Where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?
This verse has been ringing in my heart all day. I love the truth in this. I can feel the truth in it. What would we say to Jesus if we really took this in? I was on the deaths doorstep, I was really there, and Jesus came and changed me. Oh, if I would have met him before then. How many will leave this world and plead for what we have been given?
Sometimes Jesus lets me see what he really did for me, for us, and it overwhelms me so. We have loved ones here that may leave us before long. What it is worth to know what Jesus has done! We have been given such an intimate knowledge of his truth. It is so precious and to so many, it will not be given.
My heart is bowed down inside of me today.
Beth
*”When Dust Shall Sing” (a song by the Wilburns)