Sheol

"You will not abandon my soul to Sheol," Psalm 16:10.

Who's not abandoning? Jehovah. The Giver of counsel and instruction. The Provider of security. God. What's God not forsaking? The soul. Life. Self. (Our souls. Our lives. Our selves.) Not deserting to Sheol: What's Sheol? The Grave. Death. Hades. The Place of the rotting Dead. God will not cast us aside. But first: Before. Way before we faced death and dying. God did not abandon Jesus to rot away. No, not at all! Jesus had yielded his life as sin-offering. To God. For us. Jesus was the Holy One whom God would not allow to rot. God reached down to raise Jesus up from Sheol. And then. And then. And then, He let us know the path to life. He reached out. He grasped our hand in His to our eternal delight.

As we visit with a brother or sister today, we tell each other of God's rock-solid security in Jesus: He will not forsake forever. And, together, assured in his promise, we praise the one and only God.