Ransomed from death

“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.” - Hosea 13v14

Obviously when I read this I think of those powerful words when Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, ‘…Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?’

Nothing seems stronger than death. It is the ultimate enemy. It is the one that no one has ever defeated. When we think of death with naturally think of a losing situation. After all, what is worse than death?

Death has that feeling because it is so real and so final. In a moment a life can be snuffed out and we all know that it can happen to us or our loved ones at any time.

As much as we fear death however God had a plan from the very beginning, before the first death, to defeat it.

The plan? ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.’

Death is not the victor. That was proven at the resurrection of Jesus Christ when ‘death was crushed to death.’ Because death was beaten those who put their faith in the One who defeated it have nothing to fear!

We have been redeemed from death and its plagues. Death has no sting. The grave has no victory!

Praise God that He redeemed us from death through the death and resurrection of His Son.