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Friday, May 24, 2024
A week ago this Friday on a morning walk, I noticed this little bunny in someone’s yard. After a double-take, I saw that the bunny’s companion was a lawn-sprinkler with a plastic skull on it!
Obviously, the skull has no meaning to the bunny. (Actually I myself am confused about why someone would use a skull to decorate a lawn sprinkler.) But the more I stare at this duo, the more disturbed I feel. The rabbit doesn’t fear the skull—he behaves as though it might be his brother, or at least an acquaintance. The skull does nothing but stand there and demo death, and if the bunny understood what it stands for, he or she would be repulsed by this acquaintance.
As a pastor for more than four decades, I have become quite familiar with death. I’ve spoken with people who are soon to die. I have been in rooms with people as they have passed away. I have conducted many funeral and memorial services, in churches and chapels and beside graves and in military shelters in a national cemetery where the fields are white with crosses.
But at each of those services I have read words from a Book whose attitude about death I know very well. And the words I read comfort me, and have comforted others who heard them.
It’s good to fully understand what the Bible says about this universal problem. And what it says is surprisingly upbeat and encouraging. Don’t believe me? Click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/death