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======Sudden Death ...======
Monday, Oct 10, 2011. Recently we had to experience a heavy death in our
environment. The wife of a friend suddenly died. In the morning she was ok,
in the evening she was dead. Suddenly taken out of the middle of her
life. What a horror ...! We are still shocked.
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**Life is Threatened ...**
The event brings us back to our true situation. Life is always threatened. Life
is valuable, but also quite finite. It can be so vivid, so lifely, so fantastic.
But every day there are people dying in car accidents. There are ill-nesses
which bring us down. And there are natural reasons why our life ends.
Death is not nice. Death is the large threat to all our activities, to all
our feelings. Death kills, it terminates, it ends.
There is no way around death. We can try to make our life longer. We can try to
avoid death in the middle of our life, can try to have better cure for various
illnesses. That is all reasonable and natural. But we cannot beat death, we might
just be able to delay it a little bit. There is no way around death!
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**God's Perspective ...**
The Christian view onto death is different from a view which is purely within the
world. Jesus has beaten death. He has been risen, and for everyone who believes
in him, there is the perspective of eternal life. That will still experience
the death of our bodies. We still need to let go, all our plans with this world
end, all our posessions go to others, all what we are will be transformed and
changed. But there is another perspective ...!
God's perspective is different from our worldly perspective. Eternal life is a fact
for him, for us it might be just a hope, which is difficult to grasp. But there
is life beyond this complete limit which we have within this world, there is
a life beyond death in a new creation. There is Jesus, the one who talks to us through
the New Testament. He is there already, and will bring us all home.
Of course, death is still something which completely disturbs all our usual
activities. It is still a large disruptor of any view which is focused on worldly
plans. But it ultimate sting is gone. It is not true that this life would be
all we have. There is him, the eternal God, who belongs to us and we to him forever!
(Roland Potthast)
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