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My wife and I sat in a hospital room today with a dear friend and her family as she breathed her last breath on this earth. She lived her life on this earth for Christ. Though she faced many serious health issues over the last number of years she never lost faith in the Lord she has faithfully served most of her life.
As we sat in the quietness of the room and watched her earthly life ebb away, I sensed an incredible peace. I am convinced that this was a “holy” time. In the sixteenth chapter of Luke we read the account of the death of a certain rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. Verse twenty-two tells us, “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side…”(NIV). Though unaware to us in that room today I believe that the angels came to escort this child of God into the very presence of God Himself.
David reminds us in Psalm 23:4 that when we ourselves walk through the valley of “shadow of death” we need not fear because Christ is with us. Notice that David did not call it “the valley of death” but, instead, “the valley of the shadow of death.” The reason is obvious in that a shadow cannot hurt us. Though it is said that some people are afraid of their own shadow, it is quite unnecessary to be so because a shadow cannot harm one. And the reason this valley is only a “shadow” is because Christ Himself has walked it before us and in so doing has taken the pain of death away (1 Corinthians 15:55-57).
I sense the peace of God when I realize that some day when I find myself drawing the last breath of physical life, the angels will come to escort me into the presence of Christ and that my next breath will be my first in His presence.
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