My Dad died last year<\/a> at 65, and we all thought he had inherited the longevity gene from his Grandma who made it to 107!<\/span><\/p>\nScripture says life is a vapor. In light of eternity, we are here one moment, gone the next, just like the pot of water we hang our head over when we have the sniffles. I think it would behoove us to drop the facades and simply embrace age. To allow the evidences of passing time to sober us up and remind us that life is but for a moment and this earth is not our home.<\/span><\/p>\nLooking to the after-life is what God is pushing us to do, more and more each day, so that when the time comes, we are not fighting death on the death bed. When it comes my time to die, I want to be submissive to His will, which is why I try and be submissive to His will in life. I fail miserably sometimes. Like a child, I want what I want and I want it now, thank you very much. But that\u2019s the direction I\u2019m heading \u2013 to always be deferring to God and His will, which will someday include taking me home to Heaven. Guaranteed, I will not agree with His timing. I will always want to stick around and see the next grandbaby or great-grandbaby, and watch my children grow into who God wants them to be.<\/span><\/p>\nBut alas, the curse. Adam and Eve fell, and we fell with them. So death is the wage, just as the Lord warned if they sinned. For the Christian though, death has been conquered. It is merely a passing from one universe to the next (if I can say it that way) \u2026 from earthly arms to the arms of our Heavenly Father.<\/span><\/p>\nTo be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord<\/span><\/i>. (2 Cor. 5:8)<\/span><\/p>\nPrecious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. <\/span><\/i>(Ps. 116:15)<\/span><\/p>\nWhat then, does the Christian have to fear? The process of death, sure. That can\u2019t be fun. But He will never leave us or forsake us, not even in the valley of the shadow of death. And if our death is precious to Him because He looks forward to having us present with Him, then again, it would behoove us to align our thoughts with His.<\/span><\/p>\nNot that we over-do and become obsessed with or overly welcome of death. God wants us here on earth as long as He ordains, and taking care of our bodies is, simply put, good stewardship. But when He says it\u2019s time, it\u2019s time. Grey hair, wrinkles, sagging bodies, and failing organs are simply signs that the time is drawing nearer. Common sense says that whether we replace our natural faces with plastic faces or not, death claims us all.<\/span><\/p>\nCase in point would be Michael Jackson. Sometime within the next thirty years (probably), Dolly Parton and Cher. And who knows how long until it claims us. We could go in our sleep tonight, in a car wreck tomorrow, or live until 2045. The question is:<\/span><\/p>\nAre we sober minded, taking cues from our bodies and working on having a heavenly perspective about death? Or are we nervously working and scrambling to defy it, while discounting the needs and feelings of others, like Mumsy?<\/span><\/p>\nIf you remember, things didn\u2019t work out too well for Mumsy. She fought age and grey hair by kidnapping and locking an innocent girl up for 18 years and using her gift \u2013 all while she brainwashed the girl into thinking Mumsy loved her and knew best. That\u2019s how important youth was to her. Her entire life was a sham. Mumsy wasn\u2019t who she claimed to be, and lied about Rapunzel\u2019s identity as well. She was selfish, and she hurt many people in the process.<\/span><\/p>\nThink of how beautiful she would have been had she worked as hard on her heart as she did on keeping herself alive and looking swell. She would have been beautiful in spite of a perishing body.<\/span><\/p>\nThat\u2019s what I want to be. Beautiful in spite of a perishing body. Not perishing in spite of a beautiful body.<\/span><\/p>\nTherefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.<\/span><\/i> (2Cor. 4:16-18)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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