He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces;
The rebuke of
His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken.
(Isaiah 25:8 NKJV)
“O Death, where
is your sting? O Hades, where is your
victory?” (1 Corinthians
for the Lamb
who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living
fountains of waters. And God will wipe
away every tear from their eyes.”
(Revelation
In this
marvelous chapter, Isaiah sings a song of hope, as he sees the return of the
Hebrew people from captivity, and the overthrow of their foes. The Apostle Paul
takes up this thought in 1 Corinthians 15. He shows that death is the penalty
of sin, and it is by the demands of the law that sin is stirred to activity.
But Christ has satisfied and met the claims of the law, and gives power by
which we are enabled to obey it; therefore the strength of sin is broken, and
the sting of death is gone.
The
Christian need not dread to die. For him there is no uncertainty about the
future. There is no fear of what may come after death, for the condemnation of
the law has been met and borne. We may look at death this metaphorical way. The
viper has been deprived of its fangs! The prison cannot hold its inmates!
Bunyan describes Satan as exhorting Captain Sepulchre to be sure to hold
Christ, but the injunction was useless. No bars or bolts, no seal or sentry
would suffice.
Notice that
we are to "put on" incorruption and immortality (1 Corinthians
PRAYER
Heavenly
Father, when Your ways in nature or in the soul are hard to be understood, then
may our quiet confidence, our patient trust, our loving faith in You be great,
and as children knowing that they are loved, cared for, guarded, kept, may we
with a quiet mind at all times put our trust in You, the unseen God. So may we
face life without fear, and death without fainting. I pray in Jesus' name,
God's Daily Promise
Promise #242:
There is a special room in My house prepared just for you.
John 14:2 (WEB)
In my Father’s house are
many homes.
If it weren’t so, I would
have told you.
I am going to prepare a
place for you.
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