Ready to die

There's no denying the reality that death is imminent.  Being inundated with reminders of 9/11 only emphasized this fact for me. 

As a Christian, my faith is hinged on the belief that I'm more than my flesh, bones, organs, blood...  All that I am and all that I've done with my life is everlasting.  It will exist forever whether it's contained within my earthly flesh or not.

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Have you ever experienced love?  Or hate?  Or disgust?  When an emotion burns within you, consumes you, what is the origin of that fuel?  Where does it stem from?

The first man, Adam, felt shame after sinning.  So much so that he actually hid from God.

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Perhaps I'll someday be elderly having lived out my life to an old and ripe age.  Perhaps I'll die this afternoon in an unexpected event.  I may be shot by a gun or hit by a car, or die suddenly from cardiac arrest.  Perhaps I'll someday be incapacitated via an injury or disease that will leave me disabled until death. 

Every day, my body ages further into the future.  I see less, my flesh thins slightly, and the pull of gravity causes my bodily shape to react unnaturally. 

The end result is my blood stops flowing through my veins and very soon thereafter brain death.  Someone will more than likely buy a box and put my remains in it and bury it.  And then that will be it for Rob's life on Earth. 

No more blog posts.

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The only person I've had die who was close to me was an uncle.   And even then, we weren't close.  I didn't feel much during the funeral.  I simply didn't allow myself to.  I MOST CERTAINLY didn't allow myself to think about the hereafter.  And besides, it was easy to ignore that.  There were plenty of distractions presented to me on that brutally hot August day.

But, when you witness thousands and thousands of people die in the matter of a few minutes, it's more difficult to ignore anything other than DEATH.  So many people's brains are no longer functioning.  No more breath.  No more heartbeats.  No more thoughts.  Nothing left but a corpse.

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So, where did those people go exactly, if they did live on within another place?  Obviously, we aren't witness to this.  There's a barrier between here and there.  We're left in the dark if you only think in terms of that place.  And it definitely is a place.  The Bible describes a distinct place for both God's children and otherwise. 

In the meantime, we can know it through its purpose.  That purpose being to be focused entirely on our Creator.  No more distractions.  No more sin.  Perfection.

The Bible talks about glorified bodies and "being above the angels".

Sounds exciting to me.