June 13, 2020 (Saturday)
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18 NKJV).
Listen to Jesus:”“I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying” (John 10:25 NLT). Jesus is saying that even though physical death is inevitable, the true you never dies.
If you overcome your fear of death, there remains nothing to fear.
When a child of God dies here on earth, he is immediately present with Jesus (“Absent from the body, present with the Lord” [2 Corinthians 5:8]). Jesus declared that in reality, there is no such thing as death as far as God is concerned, “for he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.” (Luke 20:38). We speak of the living and the dead, but Jesus made clear that everyone who has died is still known to God. That, my friends, is a sobering thought.
God says to you: “Don’t get scared; I got this!”
Singing begins at 2:20 –
Beyond the sunset
Oh, glad reunion
With our dear loved ones
Who’ve gone before
In that fair homeland
We’ll know no parting
Beyond the sunset
Forever more
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Virgil and Blanch Brock, Horace Burr 1936
Beyond the sunset, O blissful morning |