It seems the older I get the more I witness lives changing around me by the loss of loved ones. My wife and I just this Friday was stepping out the door for an evening walk and just across the road a life changing event was occurring. A neighbor and friend for many years had collapsed and his mortal being was no more.
Mortality is the state of being susceptible to death. As far as I am understanding, this state applies to us all. Now, I know many movies or TV series have a theme of immortality but that is in the movies. Right? If you spend time looking at mortality rates around the world the news is quite shocking. People die from all sorts of causes but they die nevertheless. From the pharaohs of Egypt to ancient royalty, all believed they could rise above their mortal status but time proved no match for the inevitable.
During this season of Lent beginning with Ash Wednesday, many of us consider this time to contemplate our own mortalities in preparation for celebrating Easter. The first Sunday during this time we remember Jesus’ temptation by Satan and the sixth Sunday we remember the triumphal entry into Jerusalem with Palms with his subsequent passion and death. But here is where we all have victory over death. The verdict of our sins with the first Adam is reversed to an acquittal with the second Adam (Jesus Christ). Can you imagine being given a death sentence only to be reversed to an acquittal knowing full well you deserve the punishment to its fullest? Read Romans 5:16 and more for a greater understanding.
During this season of remembrance of our own iniquities, sins, failures and eventual death, look forward to the verdict of acquittal when you truly go on faith. When we are young we may challenge death with our actions but as we grow older and wiser we learn that there is really no challenge. Death will catch up to us but so too will life everlasting for those granted with the verdict of acquittal. Learn more how you can overcome to become.
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