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"We're all going to die; that's not our problem. Our problem is how to LIVE until we die."

 The Bible presents death as separation: physical death is the separation of the soul from the body, and spiritual death is the separation of the soul from God.

 While this might be called a blinding glimpse of the obvious, most of us live our lives without clearly focusing on this reality until we face some kind of crisis--a "wake-up call." This weekend is a good time to rethink our life and question our future. It's the best time to get clear about what's important and why. It's a time to face our feelings about dying. And it's a time to live each day to the best of our ability according to God’s purpose.

 On some level, we all know life is tenuous, but we tend to avoid thinking that there will always be an end. Since we naturally feel loss and pain when we experience the death of a close friend or family member, we assume that thinking about our own death would bring the same feelings. But, as Christians, we should actually face the prospects of own death and talk openly about it, look forward to it, instead of being depressed. Besides, death ushers us into the presence of Christ: “To be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23). So why fret?

 Here are few thoughts we might want to meditate on while we sit on top of the tombs of our departed this weekend:

 First, how to deal better with the important relationships in our lives so that we don't have regrets about what we failed to say or do with those we love.

 Next, how to change our values and priorities so that we don't regret not having pursued our own goals and dreams while following God’s will.

 Finally, how to prepare for our own eventual death by and how to be deserving when we come face to face with our creator.

 For those who don’t believe in God, death brings to an end the chance to accept God’s gracious offer of salvation. “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). For the saved, so real is the promise of the believer’s resurrection that the physical death of a Christian is called “sleep” (1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Thessalonians 5:10). We look forward to that time when “there shall be no more death”(Revelation21:4).

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