On Monday Maria Keske’s dad passed away. His death affects me as well as he was my uncle, my mother’s brother. He was close to me as I was growing up sometimes providing a fatherly role when my own dad was not available. Death has a habit of “waking people up”. It makes people reflect on their lives and what is going on around them. I have been a Christ follower since 1985 and it still made me think. I hope that as some of you read this post that you will not faint but have your faith elevated to the place that you can be assured that you know that you know that salvation is yours. If you are not sure then maybe you should stop and pray a prayer of assurance. Look at John 6:47-48 47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. That is a promise. My uncle Chris accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior so I am assured are you? Listen to this thought from Christian essayist and theologian F. W. Boreham:
“Someday my life’s little day will soften down to eventide. My sunset hours will come….And then, I know there will arise, out of the dusk, a dawning fairer than any dawn that has yet broken upon me. Out of the last tints any dawn of sunset there shall rise a day such as I shall never have known before; a day that shall restore to me all that the other days have taken from me, a day that shall never fade into twilight.”
No matter what mile you are on in the road of life know that if we are walking with the Lord Jesus we can always rejoice. Our faithful Father will be never leave us or forsake us no matter what. Death is a word not a sentence. Death is not the final answer.
