Experience of Life

And some of them said, "Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?" (John 11:37)

Sitting listening to music on a rainy day. A text message comes through. It announces the accidental death of a young man. I have never met him, but we connect. Jeremy, a member of my church, was ushered into scouting by his now deceased friend. Dead at the age of 22 years, his brother once spoke at our church for Boy Scouts Sunday. He experienced life. Now he has the experience of death.

Earlier this month, my friend died in an automobile accident. Millon Plyler at the age of 65 years was hit while driving his car when someone illegally crossed the opposite median. When it happened, I had no questions. My experience of life had taught me that questions change nothing. I had to accept the hurt and pain of lost, then look for the gain of heaven and reality of his life beyond death.

Jesus Christ, who I believe, is the source of eternal life. I do not know much about Jeremy's friend. I know more about Millon. My knowledge or lack of knowledge would not change the experience of life. It would not keep them from living or dying. There is only one source that changes our experience of life and death. Jesus Christ!

Could not Jesus, who performs miracles, have kept these men from dying? He did, not because of what we know about them beyond the fact of faith. By your faith are you made whole. By faith we worship, and our works through the experience of life expose the reality of our eternity.

When I come to die, give me Jesus, then my experience of life begins in the end.

Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, grant life unto the souls of faith. Amen