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Thought for the Month – July 2010

Before you read the thought for the month, answer this question:

When life makes you pause and question your own mortality, what answers do you come up with about death?

This past Saturday night our home racetrack, Lanco Speedway, was the site of a very scary accident. It was the kind of freak, everything falls into the exact wrong place accident that is difficult to prevent. Freak accidents and tragedies like this have a way of making us suspend the business of our lives for a few moments and reflect on the temporary and fragile state of our own existence.

The understanding that death is inevitable is in our minds, but rarely something we want to dwell on very long. Because death is filled with uncertainty it scares us to no end.  I suppose it should scare us, considering we will be dead a heck of a lot longer than we will ever be alive.

But what if we could remove the uncertainty from death? Wouldn’t it make both this life and the next a whole lot less scary and easier to deal with?  Truly God’s love for us can be seen in the fact that He has given us freedom from the fear of death through His son Jesus Christ. This world is temporary and as well it should be. It is filled with pain, violence, conflict and fear injected into it by Satan. But there is another life, another home that he cannot touch. One that is free from all of the fears of this world and is eternal, never ending. The best part is you can know now that you are going there and never have to fear death again; all it takes is a relationship with Jesus. Isn’t it worth meeting with Him today?

9That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."