Death that unwelcomed foe of life is one that we must all
meet. However willing or unwilling we must meet him. He is the enemy of life,
the bringer of all things sour. I will have people not mourn for me when I greet
him but o how I weep for others who have entered into his voyage. I weep
especially for dear friends who have experienced a bitter loss of a dear family
member or of them whom they loved with all of their souls. I treasure their
tears in those hours and unite in their pain. But as for me, do not mourn for I
am going to a better place. People die every day. It is a basic fact. It is
part of human existence. Some die young, some die old and some died never lived
at all. The greatest misery and blues are of those who died without a saviour.
Should I be able to cry for all eternity, I would cry each day for their souls.
That pollution that had deprived humanity of heaven, namely sin shall be
forever united to their nature. They would know nothing of being united with
God in paradise. And if on a luminous
day in eternity, God should gather all of his children and declare that all
angels and men should be released from their unforgiving sentence, then I shall
rejoice and be glad to welcome such sinners forgiven. I will not be as the
first son in the prodigal story but as the angels in heaven when they heard of
my salvation. It shall be good news exceedingly. But in all my readings of
scripture I do not see such a day as this in eternity, nevertheless God is all
the more good and glorious in His infinite counsel. I know I shall have no
tears in heaven, no sorrow nor pain. I wish as the apostle that I could be
cursed for another, but such is the unaffected steel of divine election by
human will. God’s purposes and counsel will stand, and I rejoice in his love
which has determined all things.
K.Oni
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