Mortality
The theme of death has been sweeping over my thoughts lately.
Life is so fragile.
Its probably the wrong time to be thinking about something so morbid. But come to think of it, death is perhaps the greater mystery.
After all we know a little about life, since we experience it. But nobody has told us anything about death. Unfortunately for us, people who die don’t come back to tell us.
And yet even more powerfully, in real life demonstration, Christ conquered death by dying.
I forget that death is God’s curse upon his own creation. I think that sometimes that death is the same thing as sin. But sin and death are two different things all together. Sin leads to death, only because 1) It is a judgement upon sin 2) it is the way that God makes sure that evil does not endure. But death is God’s architecture, and so it is beyond understanding that it was God himself, who became man, die to reverse the effects of His own curse.
When I forget this, I think I can win because Christ has won. I don’t think this is correct. I cannot beat death, because it is God who has curse me. But because it is God himself who lifts this curse, therefore I am now free. There is no winning or struggle or battle. In a sense, death has been defeated, so the thought of me ‘winning’ is rendered irrelevant.
And how do I know all this? That death has been defeated…
…because Jesus rose from the dead.
