Daily Devotional for Saturday October 5, 2019

The death of those we love!!!

(Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12; Hebrews 9:27)

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, please help guide me through this day with joy in my heart. Even though the day may have its ups and downs, the normal challenges of life, give me Your joy throughout every second today. No matter what my challenges I will praise You. No matter what my victories I will praise You. Help me to praise You in the valley and on the mountaintop and have Your joy in my heart at all times. In the name of Jesus I pray...AMEN!!!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: God says in Luke 12:2, “ For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.” A massive building project has been underway in southern Illinois, just across the Missouri border. It has only been in the last few days it became known that this was going to be a Planned Parenthood “super clinic.” Missouri has been very aggressive in passing laws through their state’s Health and Human Services department to try and restrict the number of abortions. They have been very successful and it has resulted in all of the abortion clinics in the state closing down except one. That last clinic is only open pending a judicial stay which will soon lapse. The interesting thing is Planned Parenthood has been building this “super clinic” in secret. They used shell companies to hide they were the ones building this new structure. In the final stages of this construction project, it has now become known Planned Parenthood is building a “super clinic” to cater to women in Missouri who choose to kill their baby. Be praying that God will move on the hearts of every woman who goes to that new clinic, and bring them under conviction to NOT kill that precious life from God!

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The death of someone we love. As the Holiday season is just around the corner, one of the prayer requests that we see a big increase in are people having a hard time dealing with the death of a loved one or friend. That is natural. During the time from Thanksgiving through Christmas, I find myself thinking often of my father who passed away a few weeks after Christmas in 1974, and my mother who died the day before Christmas in 1998. I have wonderful memories of the holidays growing up. It was always a special time of year in our home. So it is understandable that we think of and miss those who have died who were once part of our lives.

As difficult as it is to lose someone we love and care about, we can never forget that death is part of this journey we are on. The Bible clearly teaches us that tomorrow is promised to nobody. Probably the hardest thing about death, apart from its finality, is the burning question...why? Why does a baby, such precious gift from God, get sick and die? Why does a teenager, with so much life yet to live, have to die? Why does an accident, suddenly and without warning, take the life of a mother or father? Why does that wonderful grandfather or loving grandmother have to die?

Sadly, there is never a good answer to why. This is why our faith in Christ is so important. It is at those times in our life, when there are more questions than answers, that our faith MUST BECOME REAL. It is at those times that we must let our faith become real and trust God. What exactly does that mean? It means knowing that God is in control at all times. Nothing happens in this world apart from God allowing it to happen. God did not create death. Just the opposite. God created man to live forever. It was MAN that chose death when he sinned. Death became a byproduct of man's choice, and we all inherit that fact of life.

However, because God loves us so much, while we must accept the consequences of our sin and face death one day, that is merely physical death. By His grace, He has made a way for us to be eternally with Him if we will repent of our sins, and accept by faith His Son Jesus Christ into our hearts. THIS IS HOW WE BECOME VICTORIOUS OVER DEATH!

Even though these clay tablets we occupy during this brief journey may be dead, our soul lives on eternally. While sin not only destined our bodies to die, it also separated our eternal soul from God our Creator. But God so loved this world, that He sent his only Son to die on a wooden cross to pay for the sins of all mankind. And WHOSOEVER believes in Jesus will not eternally perish, but have LIFE EVERLASTING!!!

THERE IS VICTORY OVER DEATH THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST!

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I love you and care about you so much. I know many of you will be missing a loved one or friend during this holiday season. Know that while we will all one day face death, we live on long after we are gone through the lives of those we were able to touch along our journey. Your loved one and your friend lives on through your life! You will live on through those lives you touch! Death is NOT something we should fear, but an event we should accept.

We must also accept that we don't know when or how it will happen. We never know if there will be a tomorrow. That is why I share so often that NOW is the time. We must not waste the precious time God does give us in this life. We must not take it for granted, but strive daily to serve and glorify God the best we can. After all, that is the purpose of this life.

So as you remember your loved ones, your friends that are no longer with you this Holiday season, never forget that this journey we are on is very short indeed. Even if you are fortunate enough to live into your 80's and 90's, the time goes by very quickly. Can you believe there are only 87 days left in 2019? Make the most of each day and treat it as the precious gift from God that it is. Do all that you can each day to share His love and hope with those you encounter. You will be living on through their lives, long after you are gone from this earth and with the Lord for all eternity!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller