Today I read an honest and difficult reflection on our enemy, Death. Sometimes God gives such grace on a death bed. And more often it is nothing but horrific. We sometimes forget that death is our enemy- counter to our creation. Sometimes in the throes of death, we see its ugliness for what it is. As Denise Day Spenser says:
In that moment I realized that the hardness of Michael’s death was a reminder that it is not supposed to be this way. Ever read the first three chapters of Genesis? Man was created for life, not death. But we live in a fallen world, and the cherubim still guard the tree of life with white-hot swords. Our only hope is a Redeemer who has conquered death itself and has risen as he said. He will deliver us to a new world, a world where “there shall be no more curse,” for “…on either side of the river [is] the tree of life…”
What a timely reminder for us who live, that while death looms ahead, we were not created to die, but to live. And it is in Jesus we live and move and have our being in this world and the next.
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