For the fourth time within two months we went to a funeral. This time we lost a dear friend to cancer. She was only 42. She left behind her husband and 4 children after a two year battle. I am going to miss her smile, laugh, and unique way of expressing herself. I can still see and hear her in my mind’s eye. I know she is rejoicing with the Lord and experiencing a world we can only fathom. We struggle so hard to stay on this earth but I know she would not want to come back. I am so thankful we have a Blessed Hope. We know this is not the end. We will see our loved ones again in the presence of the Lord. Our life here seems like forever but it is only a vapor, here for a little while and then gone. Funerals remind me to live my life so that I get to see those ones I love once again. There is nothing more important than knowing, loving, and obeying God and teaching my children to do the same. It is our Blessed Hope. It is my plain and simple hope that this will be the last “Blessed Hope” blog for a while. I’m a little weary of funerals!
This latest death got me pondering about death. The older I get, the more I think that we take death much more serious than our God does. To Him, it is another natural (albeit untimely to us) shift in life that takes us from one state of life to another, like the act of conception. In a blink we enter the portal of a different form. I don’t think it was His ultimate plan that we go through the actual act of dying, with all its trauma, physical pain etc. Who knows, before sin, maybe we easily went to Him when called or came back when sent; maybe that was the way it was suppose to be. I don’t fear death, only the thought of getting to that point. Our Lord said He would be with us always, and I know I will not be deserted at that time. We worry, fret and fear, but we serve a just-in-time God, and I firmly believe that in just that time His Presence will be there for the purpose of ushering me in. This all may not be written in the Word, it’s just my meandering brain. But I truly believe there is a whole spirit world about us that is as real and natural as we humans in our present state.
What do you think dear daughter of my musings?
I have to agree with you, Mom. Every testimony of people who have died and come back do not report the actual point of dying was a terrifying experience. Of course, those who experience even a moment of heaven do not want to come back. I long for being in the presence of God. The reasons for staying are my family. I do not want to cause them pain and struggle by dying young. I also do not want to suffer, as some do, with disease, memory loss, etc. My true hope is to be taken up in the rapture. I do not wish to spark a Revelations debate but my hope is the pre-tribers are right! =+) Regardless of how or when I depart from this world, I can rest in the knowledge that God will never forsake me or my family.