Daily Devotion: Dealing with death

Hi folks!
Yes, I know, I have not been showing up everyday. Its not easy, please no vex. I will try to show up as often as possible though. One of my little darlings just recently lost her dad, and it has been a time of grief for our community here. We have rallied around her, doing the best we can to comfort her in her time of grief. And then this morning, I just happened to come across this news item:




Apparently he was an active member of Nairaland, and they are still struggling to come to terms with his demise as seen in this thread. Condolences to his family and all who knew him.

The truth is that the fatality rate on earth is 100 percent so its something we all have to think about. How should we as Christians approach this topic?

With hope. Because we do not cease to exist, we just move on to a more exciting dimension.

Here is how Paul explains it:

I Cor 15: 35-56
35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[f]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.

50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.


I place particular emphasis on verses 42-44: Sown in weakness, raised in glory!!

Let that comfort you if you are facing any grief at the moment, or the thought of death terrifies you. It is not something to fear even though fear is our most natural reaction to death. It is something to look forward to after we have fulfilled our purpose on this earth. Its a life in a new, perfected dimension. Its life forever with GOD.

As we ponder these difficult but necessary thoughts, I leave you with one of the songs we sang at the memorial for my friend's dad just last week (although I don't recall us singing it this well! LOL!!). And to remember that either in life or in death, HE is always faithful.

Have a wonderful day!



I have always, always loved the Cece version, it just gives me goosebumps! But the Isreal Houghton version is inspiring too.