The Fear of Death
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 So we always have confidence. We know that while we live in this body, we are away from the Lord. We live by what we believe will happen, not by what we can see. So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.
Most of us have rather an uncomfortable relationship with the idea of death. On the one hand we know with absolute certainty that one day we’re going to die. On the other, we never want that day to come.
We all experience that struggle to some extent, and the more our hair greys and our skin wrinkles the more it tends to play on our minds. The day I prepared today’s devotion, I was about to travel to see my ninety-two-year-old mother in hospital. She’d collapsed the day before and was found by a friend on her kitchen floor.
I’m absolutely certain that as she lay in her hospital bed, given her age and her failing health, she was thinking a lot more about dying than perhaps you or I. So, in case that whole fear of death thing is playing on your mind any time soon, here’s God’s Word to speak right into that place for you:
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 So we always have confidence. We know that while we live in this body, we are away from the Lord. We live by what we believe will happen, not by what we can see. So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.
What an encouragement! If you believe in Jesus, you can approach that final day on this earth … with what? With confidence. As Charles Spurgeon once said, “Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about.”
If you truly believe in Jesus, you’ve no need to be afraid.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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