Daily Bread (Better Yet)

[shortlady]

Better Yet
READ: Philippians 1:19-26

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. —Philippians 1:21

Sir Francis Bacon said, “I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.” Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

It’s not death that’s so frightening. It’s the dying that scares us. As Paul faced imprisonment and the prospect of dying in a jail cell, he shared his view about life and death: “To live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21). What a perspective!

Death is our enemy (1 Cor. 15:25-28), but it does not possess the finality that so many dread. There is something waiting for believers beyond this life—something better.

Someone has said, “What the caterpillar thinks is the end of life, the butterfly thinks is just the beginning.” George MacDonald wrote, “How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”

I love this paraphrase of Philippians 1:21, “To me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying—well, that’s better yet!” (TLB). During our physical life, we have opportunities to serve Jesus. But one day, we will actually be in His presence. Our fear will melt away when we see Him face to face.

That’s the “better yet” the apostle Paul is talking about!
—Cindy Hess Kasper

Death?—Christ said not death;
He called it sleep;
A vast awaking, a new day breaking,
A bright way taking, with visions deep. —H. Frost

For the Christian, the fear of death will give way to the fullness of life.

 

[Ann]

For me it is the uncertainty of what and how it will happen that is a little bit frightening, but of death itself I'm not frightened.
I look forward to the day when I will see Jesus face to face because I asked Him to take me in His arms and hug me untill all the hurt off this world has dissapeared.

Thanks for posting I appreciate it a lot, some of my fear has already gone reading this small little part.

“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”

Blessings!

 

[shortlady]

For me it is the uncertainty of what and how it will happen that is a little bit frightening, but of death itself I'm not frightened.
I look forward to the day when I will see Jesus face to face because I asked Him to take me in His arms and hug me untill all the hurt off this world has dissapeared.

Thanks for posting I appreciate it a lot, some of my fear has already gone reading this small little part.




Blessings!

Remember in the book of Timothy it says that "God hasn't given us a spirit of fear but of love, power and a sound mind." Whenever fear creeps in we start doubting this scripture and God's word. The word also tell us that "He is not a man that He should lie or the Son of man that He should repent." Let us just believe the world in spite of the unknown cause as you say absent from the body means we are in the presence of the our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Amen Sis thanks for sharing be Bless and continue to walk in faith and by faith.

Shortlady