2 Timothy 1:10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
The way we trust our Savior and our faith in Him will most certainly affect the way we live our daily lives. God wants us to live a life of victory filled with excitement and joy. John records the wish of Christ Jesus in his gospel (John 10:10). The apostle Paul also reaffirms this in his letter to Timothy (1 Timothy 6:17).
God always has a plan for our lives and that plan includes when we will go home to be with Him (Hebrews 9:27). Sometimes when one of our loved ones has reached that point in God’s plan it will seem like to us that it is an end. We know that this is not the case because of what Jesus has done for us on the Cross of Calvary and because the stone was rolled away, we know death is not an end but a new beautiful beginning. Our dear departed loved ones are with God where they will spend eternity and one day we will be there as well.
We are joyful that our dear departed is saved and will be in heaven with God, but for us left behind here in this life we might begin to think that our lives are over as well.
This will be a time of human weakness for us and Satan will most certainly use this weakness against us. He will try to keep us from casting this burden on God and make us try to bear it alone. He will very subtly try to make us feel a deep feeling of guilt when we know we must let our loved one go on to be with the Lord.
(Jeremiah 29:11-13) As God had a plan for Jeremiah to prosper his life and give him a future, He has a plan for us as well. God’s plan for our loved ones, that have gone home to be with the Lord, has not come to an end, it has only begun a new phase, an eternal phase that will never end. Our departed loved ones that are with Christ Jesus are experiencing a love and beauty that in our human state we can not even comprehend.
In Christ Jesus, every end is a new beginning.
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