Victory

"Death is swallowed up in victory," 1 Corinthians 15:54.

Death rules over this world. Oh, sure: We humans speak of cycles of life and death. You know, when someone dies someone else is born. We like to comfort each other with the notion that nobody dies as long as the living remember them. But we know better. We know. We die. And too soon nobody's left to remember. Nothing's left but tombstones of the unremembered dead. The whole cosmos rushes toward its own extinction. But God's victory is life over death! God's victory will swallow up death itself! And life, forever life, will reign in Christ.

When we meet with a brother or sister today we talk about eternal life. And together we thank God that his life into eternity begins in this world through Christ, his victory!