I am not a T.V. watcher~ I just get bored with it. I do like me a good love story as I think all women do. Last night I started watching a love story~ and once I started I just could not finish until I knew the end. I was totally upset when at the end of the movie the lady character took her life. Boy was I mad~ I always have to end every story with a happy ending. Call me a Pollyanna if you like~ my mother does! That is why it is best to stick to Christian movies and stories~lesson learned!
So I go to sleep mad at this crazy movie ~ in my mind thinking if I had written the story lines how I would have ended the movie. Then I fell into a fit of bad dreams all night long about people dying. This morning I was sure ready to do my devotions. Reality never looked so good this morning.
In the movie this beautiful~ talented woman was so unhappy with her life that her solution to the pain in her life was to end it. I know it was just a movie ~ yet I wonder how many desperate people think that this is the end?
Is death the absolute end of human existence? Not according to Ben Franklin. While scholars differ as to what he believed, there is no dispute that he believed firmly in the resurrection of the body. This epitaph he composed for himself:
The body of B. Franklin, printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost; for it will (as he believed) appear once more,in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.
Oh boy~ what a epitaph! Kind of reminds me of the Apostle Paul's affirmation when he said~ that the risen Lord will transform our corruptible bodies, making them like His own.
Philippians 3:20-21
King James Version (KJV)
20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
I don't like the thought of dying but I am not afraid to die. My name is written down in that Book of Life and my reservation is secured~ signed ~sealed and delivered. But ~in my Pollyanna way of looking at things I think I have eternity in Heaven~ forever and forever~ so I would like to stay here on this earth as long as I possibly can. In fact I have asked the Lord since I was young to please let me see my 100th birthday. Not sure if He will answer my prayer but He does say He will give us the desires of our heart. I don't suspect I will ever be ready to tell my loved ones here on earth good-bye. I cry at every goodbye~ just ask my family!
It is a comfort knowing that as we move on moment by moment toward death that we have the assurance of Heaven and eternity with our our Saviour and our loved ones. This comfort is to all who believe the good news of the atoning death of Christ on the cross with its victorious sequel of the empty tomb.
The resurrection assures what Calvary secures~ now that is worth celebrating today!
Are you 100% sure if you died today that your name is written down in that Lamb's Book of Life? If not I invite you to click here and make the best decision you will ever make!
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