Thoughts for another day

Feb. 7, 2008

Today's verse: 1 Sam. 25:8. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

There indeed is a glorious thing about our God. O Christian, read the above verse and you will get, but a faint hint of it. A thing of interest is that God reaches out to us in the furthermost and the farthest niches of oblivion that we might have receded into. You know, for Him traversing between death and life is but a triviality and both life and death are current; in fact, death is only for us, that too, only a shift from the earthen vessels we dwell in to an incorruptible body. And, we inherited death through our first father Adam, in and through the sin he committed.

God can send us into the shaft of death and then bring us into life, both, life here on earth (like Jesus gave to Lazarus) and new life beyond this life (like Jesus has promised us). When death means the ‘finalé’ for us in most cases, Jesus promises victory in it. It’s like Paul teasing death in saying, ‘O death, where is your sting…?’ – 1 Cor. 15:55. Most people, who have learnt a few things about God, understand what I say very well. The immensity of God over all things has to be understood first to understand things like ‘I am the Resurrection and the life.’ God, though beyond the scope of human comprehension through human knowledge and endeavor, is much understood in simple belief sought at His feet. And in this comprehension comes the knowledge of His loveliness to us, who are but flowers, which wilt and wither as the sun comes up – as James says in 1:10,11.

My heart is moved when I read what God will do additionally, that is, wipe the tears off our eyes. Imagine a God so majestic, making us sit in His bosom and gently wiping the tears in our eyes. Can you see the love oozing out of our God? Can you see His care manifested by His act? My God, I too, like David want to say, ‘What is man that You think of him; mortal man that You care for him.’