Appointment with death5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Out in the great beyond your soul will live somewhere forever! Death does not end it all. Death is more than simply pushing up daisies from the ground above the buried body. If the funeral were final and the grave were the end of everything and a human being died like a dog, we could not blame people for living like beasts of the field. ![]() Every one of us is on his way to the cemetery (barring the return of Christ). But one day your heart will forget to beat your knees will buckle under your tired body the hearse will back up to your door the undertaker will notify the newspaper and your name will appear in the obituary column. God has taken people all around you, and yet your heart is still beating. The epitaph of all generations is: He was born he lived he died. Most of our names are mentioned in the newspaper at least three times: Our birth is noted, our marriage, and finally our death. We are all marching in the long parade of death. And yet most people do not fear death, they simply ignore it.īut the fact remains that death is very real. ![]() ![]() Many try and hide the “king of terrors” (Job 18:14) by the embalmer’s art, beautiful flowers, and comforting words. At the funeral they place artificial grass over the rough clods and line the grave with flowers to hide the hideous fact of death. People seek to avoid death they do not want to face death. There is no experience in life so generally dreaded as death. ![]()
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