Death: A Joyful Prospect?
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Everyone agrees someone is going to die this year, but no one thinks it is going to be them. Yet, this could be the year the Lord calls us home.
In this video, I explore how Jesus fundamentally transforms our relationship with the grave. While death remains an enemy, it is a conquered foe. Because of the resurrection, we can truly say with the Apostle Paul, “To live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Drawing from Charles Spurgeon’s profound meditation on Joshua 5:12, we look at the beauty of trading our “moving tents” and “howling wildernesses” for the promised rest of Canaan. If being “forever with the Lord” is our ultimate destination, then the prospect of going home this year isn’t a tragedy—it is, as Spurgeon called it, a “double bliss.”
I also share John Wesley’s famous Covenant Prayer as an invitation to surrender to the Lord afresh:
I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you, exalted for you, or brought low for you; let me be full, let me be empty, let me have all things, let me have nothing: I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to your pleasure and disposal. And now, glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you are mine and I am yours. So be it. And the covenant now made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven. Amen.
