Random thoughts for 4/21

"But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death . . . ." (Acts 2:24). The note in the margin of my Bible comments on that phrase, "agony of death," indicating the Greek is better translated, "the birth pangs of death."

What a word-picture that is! Our lives don't end in death, resulting in blackness and nothingness. Just as a child is brought into the light of life through the birth pains of his mother, so the child of God is brought into the light of eternal life through the birth pains of death.

Death is no victor. The grave has no sting. The resurrection of Jesus proves once and for all time, we too shall be raised to eternal life through the grace of God, and the birth pains of death.

Hallelujah.

rich
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