Does
anyone ever think about how death will affect their life? Could it be
something upon which a person doesn’t grasp fully? Or something
which they can? Who’s to say exactly what will happen when such a
thought occurs? Do you have all you need to have in this life secured
away? I doubt it. I don’t think a lot of people have everything
they actually need in this life. We all go about doing the best we
can and hope that it is enough.
But,
what does happen at death? We know the body and the spirit are
separated. It’s like a glove. Yes that analogy. Nothing new
there. But there has to be something more to this life than simply
living and then dying to go onto some other place? A place that
doesn’t matter or make sense? Well maybe it does matter. I’m not
sure. I mean who would have thought anything ever mattered in this
life? If something matters, it would need to actually be there for a
purpose upon which we cannot see. Perhaps that’s where faith comes
in? I mean, that’s always a possibility right? Who’s to say what
is right and wrong in such thinking?
From
scripture, we are told the following:
O
death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The
sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
But
thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.1
Christ
suffered all things so we might be able to come unto Him and unto the
God which gave us life. It is in the plan of salvation which we are
to follow in order to live fully to the principles and ordinances of
the gospel. (Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost2)
For this is the Doctrine of Christ that we might be saved in the
Kingdom of God.
Now
there has been dispute regarding the Kingdom of God and how people
get to heaven. Some say it is by grace alone and we do not need
works. Others say it is by works and then after all we can do we are
saved by grace. That Christ is the mediator3
between us and the Father. He is the lawgiver and the law. No man
cometh under the Father but by Him, he is the way, the truth and the
life.4
If
we believe such things, how is it that people do not fully attend to
them? Why do they fear death? Is it the actual process of death
people fear? Or is it something else?
If
it is something else, what exactly is that? Are we doomed if we do
not fully believe in this life? Do we go to a place of Hell before we
are able to grab hold of the Iron Rod and move along the path which
we were to have been moving on all along? What is the point of it all
if we are but simply trying to do our best? Perhaps that’s all
which is required of us? To try and to our best, without that we are
nothing. Without God we are nothing. What is the purpose of this life
if we cannot rise above the temptations of that evil wicked one, the
father of lies even the devil?
When
a person comes to know that which is just and true, and fall away for
a season are they doomed because of it? Does God, who knows all from
everlasting to everlasting, give them an ounce of leeway? Or are we
simply damned before any of this life ever happened because God knows
our hearts mind and our hearts
mind. Why must there be so many questions in regard to this life? I
do not fully understand any of it. Any amount of prayer will not make
it all better either. It only seems to cause more questions than
answers.
1. 1
Corinthians 15:55-57
2. See
Articles of Faith 1:4
3. 1
Timothy 2:5
4. John
14:6
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