SAPELE/DELTA STATE MUST BETTER. 18/11/2014. Morning Coffee Of The World Of God. IS IT REALLY UNTIMELY DEATH OR THE HOUR OF GOD? Here is the funeral for a young woman who was a close friend of one of my daughters. She had struggled in her Christian life and just returned to fellowship with Him. She was killed in a car accident on her way to a Christian college. The death of this lovely young woman, at the prime of her life, may seem to some to be untimely. In the sense that it catches us unprepared and overcomes us with grief, this is no doubt true. But from a biblical perspective Marys death is not untimely at all. I would like to share the Scriptural truths which can bring us great comfort as we see the timeliness of Marys death. If believed, these biblical truths will enable us to grieve as those who have the hope which God alone can place in our hearts at a time like this. First, the Bible assures us that Marys death was not untimely, because this was Gods appointed time for her to die. When Job was informed of the tragic death of his children, he responded, The Lord Gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord (Job 1:21). Even when faced with the tragic news of the death of his children, Job knew that their death did not take God by surprise. Job was comforted in knowing that just as God had given him his children in birth, so it was God who had taken them in death. Jobs theology is also that of David, who wrote, Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Thy book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them (Ps. 139:16). This passage informs us that from eternity past, the number of Marys days, like yours and mine, were foreordained. Her death came earlier than we would have expected, but it was Gods appointed time, and therefore it cannot be untimely, for God does all things well. May how hour of death not be now through Christ Our Lord. Prayers: My prayer is that as God has spoken through Marys life, and now, through her death, you and I might be attentive to that message as it applies to each of us. Amen God Bless Sapele. SAPELE/DELTA STATE MUST BETTER.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:12:52 +0000
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