This Article is dedicated ...with much love....to the memory and life of my Aunt Ethel.....who just went 'Home' after 98 years on planet earth.

BITTER END?

Reading another person’s ‘opinion’ or ‘blog’ went something like this.

....Change. It’s everywhere. We are born. We grow up, become stronger, and then get older. We get weaker. Death - comes.

....Change. Families change. A man and woman become husband and wife.
They birth children.
The children marry ’outsiders’ who then become ’family’.
The children move away.
The husband and wife are alone again.
A spouse dies.

....Change. Finances change. We work at entry levels.
We earn promotions.
We build lifestyles based on increasing incomes.
Then we retire.
Incomes become fixed.

So much change.

I agree with the ‘realistic’ facts listed above.
Yet they each project a.......dismal bitter end.

I prefer thinking of this same scenario with the
“It’s A Good Life” mentality....
Once I wrote a little book for family and friends about “Heaven”...not the pie in the sky definition but a down to earth....based on The Bible‘s ....Real....Heaven.
In the back of the little book I summarized it with an article by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s called.....

GOD’S ANSWER IS....”LIFE”.......(for me.....It’s a GOOD Life)

Before you came into this world you were an unborn baby.
And in going from this world we know....into another world we are still unborn babies so far as the next world is concerned.
A baby not yet born, still tucked under his mother’s heart in his safe cocoon...might say, “This is a warm place. I’m taken care of; I’m secure here. I like it!” And then somebody might say to him, “You are not going to stay, you are going out of this world into another.”
That baby would look upon the process of birth as if it were death, since it would be the end of the state he was in....
And he would say, ‘I don’t want to die;
I want to stay here. I understand it here.”
What to us is birth, to him is death, and he resists it.......
But the day comes when he does die to that life and is born into this air breathing mortal one.
What happens to him?
The newborn baby is cradled in loving arms:
soft hands hold him gently; a kind face looks down on him and he loves that face. He is king of the world he surveys.
.....Then he begins to grow and finds life good....
Oh, he has hardships, but that is to make a strong man of him.
He has some struggles, which toughen his fiber.
But he loves God and people love him.
Finally he gets to be an old man and he is told, ‘You have to die”.
....He protests,....”I don’t want to die. I love this world. I like our dear, human ways. I have lived here a long time....I don’t want to die.”
But he does die to this world and is BORN into the next world....
....the “Real” world he was being prepared for all along.
The person who leaves us and has known Jesus Christ....will awaken to find himself young again. Loving faces will greet him; loving hands will touch him. More beautiful sunlight than ours will fall upon his face; sweeter music will sound in his ears....
And he will say to himself.........”Why was I so afraid of this that we call death when, as I NOW know it,....IT IS LIFE....THE REAL THING!!!”

This is exactly what Jesus was saying when he said, “ I Am the Resurrection and The Life....and whoever lives and believes in Me....SHALL NEVER DIE!”

Yes......God’s Answer IS LIFE.....The Good Life.....