Thursday, May 1, 2008
I am so saddened to hear of Sis\\'s passing. My love and deepest sympathy to you all. Sadly, I will not be able to make it tonight due to my final exam schedule. I did want to share some scripture with you that always brings me consolation at times like these. I hope and pray that it will help to ease your sense of loss. I Corinthians 15: New Living Translation 49 Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. 50 What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that our physical bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever. 51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! 52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed. 53 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies. 54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die,this Scripture will be fulfilled: "Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
