Death
seems to interrupt nearly all things hopeful;
yet after it has done its best to destroy it
is still much less profound than life for life
will continue after it.
Death
is the last enemy on this life’s
frontier but for the believer his personal
deposit of resurrection life passes through
it purified, focused, untainted, even
rewarded and prepared for an eternal
advance with and into its Creative source;
not in loneliness but in a fellowship
of glory with others of the Divine offspring.
Only
the unbeliever, no matter how good he is,
need fear, for by default he has in this
life missed the mark, missed the provision,
missed the transition and promise of the
life that is really Life, the Divine Life
that will swell and blossom throughout eternity
as it expands its enjoyment in a humanity
that has received and reveled in it.
It
is utmost wisdom, then, to put away inferior
things and to diminish trust in materials,
philosophy and even religion in order to
cry out to the living, redeeming Christ,
to the nourishing Spirit, and to the eternal
Father for as part of mankind we are in His
heart, not only in this age, but in that
which is to come.
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