About a week ago, I learned that a friend of mine, whom I had connected with since college, had passed away. Although we were only connected online, I was truly saddened. She was around my age. Despite being active and staying positive, her body was too weak to overcome the disease.
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| For privacy’s sake, I can’t share her face, But this rubber duck of hers captures our friendship’s pace. |
Her passing reminded me of the inevitability of our
lives—that at any moment, it could also be taken from us. We never know when
our time will be over. Ecclesiastes 9 says that death comes to all, and Hebrews9:27 tells us that it is appointed for us to die once, and after that comes
judgment.
While a disease like cancer is seen by many as a dreadful affliction, to die apart from Christ is the greatest misery of all.
However, those in Christ have nothing to fear as Jesus said (John 11:25-26), "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die."
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