For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living (Romans 14:7-9 NKJV).
My schedule for the summer has made it difficult to write so I have tried to share some thoughts from some other thoughtful people. Here is another quote from Elton Trueblood:
If this is really God's world, then we are really under His care, whether we live or whether we die. If God is, and if He is like Christ, then the problem of evil, instead of being principally a barrier to faith, becomes one of the chief reasons for believing in the conscious survival of personality after the death of the body. Since many are unfairly treated here, then it is evident that God's goodness is frustrated and defeated unless there is a beyond. But we cannot believe that His goodness is permanently frustrated and defeated. Therefore there must be a future life, beyond our human ability to visualize or even imagine, in which God preserves and purifies that which here He only begins.
What a wonderful, reasonable hope we have in Jesus Christ!
Our Father's Blessings,
Tom
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