Spirit of the Flame - 70 days following the Olympic Torch
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I spent a number of hours in the hospital today. Unplanned. I'm OK. I needed to take a family member to A&E. While waiting on doctors and assessments, I was asked to sit in the corridor. While I was reading and thinking through the things I needed to get done, I also watched people, like me, poised for improvement of health of a patient.
One such man sat a few seats away from me. I guess in his late sixties. He rose to his feet when a medical staff member, seemingly someone he knew, came round the corner. Something was said, briefly, then a man in his forties came round the same corner. Approaching the elder man, the younger man uttered, "He just passed away." They embraced, shed a tear, then walked out towards the exit. I guessed they were uncle and nephew.
Death is eventual. And permanent. At least the life we know now. But Jesus offers an eternal life. A life as He intended before the infection of selfishness, sin.
Mary lamented over the lack of Jesus presence before Lazarus' death. She said if Jesus had been there, her brother would not have died. She even acknowledged a "resurrection at the last day." ((John 11:24))
v.25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe?" ((NIV))
We have an eternal future, even if we die, if we believe. If we seek and abide in the presence of Jesus we have a long future ahead of us.
Do you believe this?
-Pr Nathan Stickland
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