Category: Spiritual and inspirational

Sin is linked to death because that is the wages. When Jesus carried the sin of the world, the Divinity stepped out of Jesus and that is when He cried out. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!”

Divinity cannot die, therefore, at that moment it left Jesus to give way to death. That is why the Lord felt abandoned by God. He had to die as a man, not as God and man.

Jesus’ earthly life was 33 years in which He suffered many afflictions from the very womb. He could have died in the womb of His mother when she could have been stoned for being pregnant without a husband.

From His Conception to Gethsemane, in all His afflictions, He was comforted by the presence of the Father. Not so on the Cross, then, how could He remain himself and carry out the plan of redemption without His Father?

At the creation of man, God imparted His life to him, and Adam received that tenacity. When man sets out to do something, he fights against the winds and tides until he achieves it. The Tower of Babel is an example.

I believe that human tenacity and His commitment to redemption kept Him on the Cross. Jesus had no anti-body for sin because he never practiced it.

So even at that critical moment, abandoned and despised by all, sin had no power against Him. All its tissues and membranes were free of contamination. Nothing in His being was ever the recipient of sin. And that is why His body can serve as currency to pay God for the world’s sin debt. And this is love!

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 MEV).

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Loneliness

Death is the most hated and feared entity that exists. It causes a myriad of heartbreak and pierces the souls of everyone involved.

It’s no secret that the unknown terrifies humanity, and death is an unknown power for many.

The wages of sin is death and its main effect is to separate the person from God. But the Lord gave us a solution for that:

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 NLT).

Death lost its hold on us, fear no more!

“ … For only as a human being could Jesus die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.” (Hebrews 2:14 NLT).

In the natural, the most terrible effect of death is the separation of loved ones, because God created us to be in community. And loneliness impairs our coping with our daily performance

God created us with a sense of belonging. And in our earthly journey we encounter enmities and strife that rob us of that God-given belonging. And suddenly, we find ourselves separated from where we belong. And we wonder what happened to that pleasant feeling of belonging?

What a Paradox!

If the main effect of death is to separate us from God and from each other, I see a perfect paradox. Funeral or memorial services bring together people who have not been in contact for years.

On that special occasion people’s hearts are tender and thoughtful to understand the reality of eternity. And they receive the gift of life, Jesus Christ, and of course, fear no more!

So now the main effect of death to separate us becomes a joke, because people who had lost contact with each other for a long time, are reunited in a new and fresh relationship.

So God’s purpose can never be frustrated! He created us for the community and we are in community!

However, the main separative effect of death has been defeated!

This is my Story! What’s Yours?