1 Kings 15:33-16:34; Jeremiah 27:1-28:17; Colossians 4:2-18
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death…Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 1 Corinthians 15:26, 54-55
Because He took our place on the cross, our Lord Jesus Christ is the victorious Conqueror over death and the grave. Therefore death is no longer the enemy of those who have trusted in Him as Saviour and Lord. We can look forward to being “absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8), as Paul did, “having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better” (Phil. 1:23). —Elizabeth C. Bishop
Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.
“Dust thou art, to dust returneth,” was not spoken of the soul. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow