Death is not a failure
Death is not a failure or defeat, it is a victory
Death is not God’s rejection, it is an acceptance
Death is not an incomplete life, it is fully complete
Death is not an unanswered prayer, it is an accepted prayer
Death is not a failure or defeat, it is a victory
Was Jesus’s death on the cross a failure? If we believe it is not a failure but victory over death then, we should also believe death is not a failure or defeat. It is a victory!
Anand is precious in God’s sight and he is a blessed one.
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants.
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
Death is not God’s rejection, it is an acceptance
Death doesn’t mean God rejected a person it actually is the other way round, God accepted a person. He accepted a person to be with him and see him face to face.
Anand lived as a foreigner in this world, God accepted and he returned to where he belongs (He is a citizen of heaven).
Philippians 3:20-21 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under
his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
Death is not an incomplete life, it is fully complete
Death is not an incomplete life. Those who die are complete, and qualified to be with the Lord. Living here in this world also means, God is still preparing us to be ready and it takes time.
Anand completed his job, heard His voice and followed Him to stay with Him which God prepared for him.
John 10:27-29 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand." (Jesus speaking)
John 14:1-4 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that
I go to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
Death is not an unanswered prayer, it is an accepted prayer
Death is not an unanswered prayer. It is a well-accepted prayer. God removes all pains and aches and gives eternal life to be present with Him.
Anand, even though he is not present in the body, he is present with Lord with no pain.
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
In spite of all these, death is not easy. Separation is difficult. When Lazarus died, even though Jesus knew He was going to bring him alive, He wept! God created us as a family with a good reason and it is okay to cry and feel the separation but we should not keep staying in valley of death, we should walk through and get out of the valley. God will fill that gap and He will give peace and strength which no one in this world can give.
Death can separate us from this world but it cannot separate us from God’s love.
Romans 8:38-39 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sometimes God does miracle by keeping lives alive, sometimes by taking away lives to be with him.
The God who resurrected Lazarus also allowed his own disciple James to be killed.
God is not putting us down by taking away our loved ones. He is lifting us high.
Let us proclaim boldly and proudly..
Death is not a failure or defeat, it is a victory
Death is not God’s rejection, it is an acceptance
Death is not an incomplete life, it is fully complete
Death is not an unanswered prayer, it is an accepted prayer
