Revelation 14:13 (KJV)
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Realities
There are things that are universally true of all men in all times.
It is universally true that life bears struggle.
Rich or poor, male or female; in good times or bad, life is filled with some sort of struggle.
It is universally true that men war.
We might wish it were not so, but there has never been a time in history where there wasn’t war of some kind among men.
It is universally true that we all die.
This is not a matter of faith but of fact. Whether one is a believer in Christ or not, it is certain: we will all struggle in life, we will all face conflict, and in the end, we will all die.
But Faith!
Faith declares, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.”
In effect, the man without faith is a man without hope. Refusing to accept there is something beyond this life, he strives, wars, and struggles to find some measure of blessing here. He may or may not attain a degree of happiness, but in the end he dies—having lived only for the moment.
Mind you, he must believe there is nothing after death by faith, because he does not know. He simply refuses to accept the evidence for life after death, or he does not like the consequences of it, so he will not face it. Still, his position is one of faith—faith without hope.
The believer in Christ endures the same problems of life—struggles, conflict, difficulties—but he faces them from the position of hope. We who believe cannot know there is life after death any more than the unbeliever can know there is not. The difference is that our faith carries hope. We believe there is life after death, and we believe our faith in Christ brings blessing in death.
Faith in Christ
- Provides hope today
- Promises blessing tomorrow
The faith of the unbeliever offers neither.
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The Final Reality: Life, Death, and the Difference Christ Makes
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