Everyone that dies, dies from suicide. What about car accident, sickness, accidents, or natural causes? Yes, those are the reasons their mortal bodies are no longer walking the earth. Does that mean they are dead? Not necessarily.
One person that I know truthfully, that died, is Jesus. He died on the cross, for our sins, and then rose again on the third day. Everyone else that has passed away before or since then, (other than those in God’s word that sealed their fate: Cain, Judas Iscariot and etc for example) their fate is unknown. It is not for anyone else to decide.
“But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:6-9 ESV
Being saved from death can happen and could have happened with anyone, even within their last breath. What does it matter to one, the fate of another? Is there not enough room in heaven? Is it that there is someone that you couldn’t be in heaven with? The person we are now or who we are on this earth is not who we will be in heaven. By then one will be sanctified and purified of unrighteousness. God takes so much away from a person through justification, how much more will be stripped away through sanctification and glorification.
Regardless, a life lived without God leads to a death, or afterlife, without God. How could that surprise someone to hear? “That doesn’t sound like a forgiving God.” Can one be forgiven when they never ask for forgiveness?
My life before God, I claim was like hell. That’s mostly because I’m weak and a complainer, but to be sealed in that fate for eternity, that’s hell. No need for the fire and torment, for me, just the thought of possibly being left alone to my own thoughts for eternity and without the barriers of Gods guidance to them, unimaginable torment. The depths that my mind was able to descend to, before Jesus saved me, it was the stuff of nightmares. No wonder I had so many back then.
To think that I did almost seal my fate stuck in that mindset. That was the extent of what I knew. All the problems that I, myself, alone, created and my only solution was that. Glory be to God, who saved me from that fate.
What about those who weren’t? I ask, what is the difference between one that chooses to end it, what seemed as early, or those that live an entire life but never chose to believe? The same lack of choosing to believe ultimately ends with the same result. Again, I am not venturing to assume what becomes the fate for anyone. God knows and has told us what are the results of our choices.
I believe this is a root of many problems in a person’s life. The thought that this is all for nothing. That everything we are going through, all the struggles and hardships, trials and tribulations, even all the success and enjoyment. What’s the sense of it, if in the end we just die? Some believed or believe this is the case so much that it might as well happen now and be done with it. What’s the sense in going on? Others stagger through it, pressing on for a multitude of vain reasons. Regardless of how unselfish those reasons might be portrayed as, if they are keeping you alive then who are they truly for?
“For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” Romans 14:8 ESV
I pray more learn to live for the Lord. Give your life meaning, by finding its purpose that was set by the One who designed it. I pray Father this for others and myself, to learn to follow you better. To make You our main focus, to better ourselves by Your word. Which in turn makes us better at whatever we are doing as a hobby, financial or not. Living by You and for You makes us heirs to Your promises. Promises that You will provide for all our needs, that You will fight all our battles, and that You will grant us eternity. You have died for us, so that no one else shall need to suffer that fate, because You love us. If you need God now and forever, “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Matthew 21:22 KJV. In Jesus name I pray, Amen
“We love him, because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 KJV
“That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.” Ecclesiastes 3:15 KJV
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 KJV
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 KJV
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