As I was driving a short distance from the store to show my Mom my Wed. night church, she mentioned that one of the things she wanted to do is find her aunt’s tombstone near where we were; an aunt she loved but whom had died many years ago before I was born. We stopped by the graveyard and looked through about 1/3 of it only to notice many stones were so damaged by environmental factors that we may never find it. So I will contact the ‘owners’ to see if there is any record of her burial plot.
Despite knowing her body is/ was in the ground, I know that is just her flesh (1) and not who she was as a person. That flesh will either rise up one day at the catching up (2) or ‘rapture’ if she was saved, or will rise up at the white throne of judgment (3) if she wasn’t. But at her death, who she was- her spirit either went to be with the Lord (4) forever- in Heaven if she was saved, or down to Hell (5) if she wasn’t. So we won’t find ‘Emma’ in that cemetery, just her old shell that she doesn’t use anymore. Hopefully, she was saved, is in a better place now, and one day soon I will meet her.
(1) ...Will we descend together into the dust? Job. 17:16 NIV
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ec. 12:7
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. Ec. 9:10 NIV
(2) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:16 ,17
(3) And I saw a great white throne, …And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Rev. 20:11-15
(4) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2Cor. 5:8
…I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; Php. 1:23 NIV
(5) And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Mt. 25:46
(them that know not God) Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 2Th. 1:9
If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His salvation, know that salvation is only found through Him and His blood. You can be saved through faith in Him. Please read my page 'if you'd like to be saved'.
If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His salvation, know that salvation is only found through Him and His blood. You can be saved through faith in Him. Please read my page 'if you'd like to be saved'.