I used this statement just yesterday when I sent a text to someone that Chuck had passed from this life. This morning, I ran across something that really says that statement is wrong. What I found was the truth.
"No one actually passes away."
You can find the statement (and more) here: biblelovenotes.blogspot.com
It brings out a very good point. One that I had not thought of before. Because when we die, we do pass on. But it's to somewhere far better or far worse then what we lived on earth.
My brother-in-law, sadly probably passed on to the "far worse" because he rejected God all his life. "Religion is for weak people" he had said. He wasn't weak. At least he thought he wasn't. And when you would try to talk to him about God, he would stop you and refuse to talk to you about anything that he refused to believe.
Not that there wasn't any hope for him.
It was funny in a way that after he had married his second wife, she became a Christian at some point. And she read her bible and went to church. I do not doubt that some of the things she did, got him red under the collar sometimes.
And I do not doubt that she and other family members prayed for him all those years. Until at the age of 84, he was suddenly gone from this earth. To where?
Hard to say. He lay dying for a couple days in bed. Did he think about God then? Did he ask for forgiveness perhaps knowing he was at the end?
Possible. But we do not know for sure. His wife had already gone to heaven several years ago. His family that prayed for him all those years, were not around.
What is sure, he did not just pass away. His spirit is somewhere.
In a very bad place?
Or in heaven?
And we won't know until we ourselves get to heaven.
So think about it friends.
The next time you tell someone that so and so passed away.
Remember they did die. But they are alive somewhere.
In heaven or hell.
Thanks for coming, Friends. Have a blessed day!
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