Will You and Yours Be Protected During this Precious Gift?

© 2018 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

This month, our son’s father-in-law died.  As a believer in Christ, he’s now with his Lord who died and rose again to save him.  Nevertheless, those left behind feel sadness and loneliness.  When I imagine some future time when I might miss my dear Kathy, I shrink back from the thought.

However, The Lord, Himself, refers to such events as “precious.”

“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.” (Psalms 116:15)

The Apostle Paul provides insight regarding this view held by God.  Comparing life’s hardships to eternity he says:

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18)

Because of this Paul said:

“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8)

Christians, whose loved one has gone to be with Christ, still sorrow.  However, their sorrow is balanced by anticipation of Scripture’s wonderful promised reunion.

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

Has Christ made you and your loved ones His saints, or will death separate you, eternally, from them?

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