Discovering How to Deal With Loss in Your Life
Death is a hard subject to talk about. It’s even more difficult to face, particularly if you have no idea what’s waiting “on the other side”. It is a common belief that all good folks go to heaven, while really bad folk, like Hitler, Stalin and Bin Laden go to hell. But if there is no certainty, the prospective can be quite terrifyingAlso an unknown destination after death, there’s plenty of other things that make death hard to cope with. Death means separation; separation from family, from things one enjoys and well…everything.
It also means suffering. The majority leave this life through agony and suffering. It’s not frequently one just closes their eyes, breathes their last breath and is gone without experiencing some kind of suffering. Regardless of whether one dies quickly in an accident, there can be scaring moments just prior to that which make their dying experience anything except pleasing.
Several years gone, my first hubby was identified with a quickly metastasizing brain growth and given just a couple of months to live. When I asked him if he was frightened to die he revealed, “No, I am not afraid to die but I'm very terrified of the process.” That sounded correct to me. He forecasted, with great joy, what awaited him on the opposite side of death but knew the road he must take to get there would be filled with great discomfort and suffering “which was. Separation, suffering and the great unknown of death make it comprehensible why folks fear it so. Yet, God’s Word tells us death is something we need not fear, not if we “live” right. How we live makes all of the difference in how we die.
If one chooses to live this life, for and by one’s self, without God, then by their own choice, when their life ends, the only source of power and strength they will have to draw upon is their own. Unfortunately , they will quickly discover their personal reservoir has zip to offer them and worse, they have no ability all alone to get to heaven.
Jesus is the only possible way to heaven.
Put simply, death doesn't have the last say. For all Followers of Christ, death isn’t last. It is just a entrance to our real home, our ultimate destination, the place we were created for. In our eternal home, all suffering, sadness, discomfort and illness will end. We shall experience joy and pleasure like we have never known. Death, then, can essentially become something we anticipate rather than fear due to where it will take us.
Even the method of dying loses its frightening grip when one walks that journey with God, instead of on their own.
Burton Rager writer of”Living Life Set Free” and “God’s Answer?” Click to learn how to deal with death and receive a complimentary copy of “God’s Answer?”