Death where is your sting

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.  – 1 Corinthians 15.55-56

Death. Even the sound of the word is ugly. I think it is ugly because it something that we have never experienced and something no one has ever come back from us to enlighten us at all. All we know is that it is coming and to make it even worse we don’t have any idea when we will meet it.

So death terrifies us normally. When we see death illustrated he is usually a dark shadowy figure with a hood covering his skeletal carrying a scythe in order to reap his macabre harvest.

But death has lost its sting. The grave has lost its victory. Death has been crushed to death. Death could not hold Jesus so death now has no power over us. For beleivers death is just a change of location.

I don’t think I’ll ever be excited about death – but I need not fear it.