Confrontation. Life and Death.

A dear friend’s wife, so young and alive, is given two days to live by the doctors today. Yes, two days, by the doctors. And they have two very young little children, ages below ten.

How can one remain calm and unaffected by such a news? How can one believer react?

Sadness, mourning? Questioning, puzzled? Angry, accuse God of injustice? Shocked, paralyzed? Where is the Lord? Where is comfort? Where is understanding? They are elusive.

The doctors declared, but not the Lord. Two days, in the eyes of man, but never in the eyes of God. There is life that never perishes and ends in the Lord’s presence. There is life even in this earth that God can extend. There is such a thing called miracle and healing. In the final analysis, it is the verdict of the Lord that will matter!!!

We need faith, faith unwavering, at such a time as this. Faith in the ways of the Lord which are higher than ours. His ways that are Sovereign and beyond our limited and small capacity to understand.

Why would life and death issues affect us so much? Why is it such a life-changing inevitable? Why, oh why? My notion is that we can never escape from the final analysis of life. Such final analysis of life that will be accounted in the end. Such final analysis of life that will be taken back by the Creator and Giver. Such final analysis that there is death!

Life is short. Life is temporary. It will surely come to pass. Life will end. And for some, it is sooner than expected. For many, it is simply soon.

But life is also eternal. Life is also not temporary. There is another life after death. In fact, death is only an entry point to that life which never ends. That life which promises no more suffering and grief and all that is temporary.

However, there is also a death that is eternal. Such death that promises not an entry to the never-ending life. Such death that declares finality. The final death without restoration.

Two deaths. Two lives. How can that be?

This is the story.

It is simply loosing any form of connection with and to the source of that never-ending life!

(i wrote this right after hearing the news. i dedicate this article to her... to liza, a dear friend and sister... a great mother and wife! thank you for inspiring me with your life! she went to be with our Father forever, more than two weeks after the doctors made that declaration.)