Chance of Dying 100%
Several years ago, there was a doctor in England who said he was working on a drug that was going to reverse the effects of aging. He claimed that remarkable medicine would prevent the body from growing old. When someone asked him whether it would prevent people from dying, he said, “no.” The treatment wouldn’t prevent diseases, cancers, or accidents. The average human lifespan would increase to, he thought, nearly 1000 years in the best-case scenario, but eventually, chance would catch up, and we would be hit by a bus or something like that.
Chance of Dying? 100%
The point of this little story is that even if we were to eliminate cancer, disease, aging, and all other afflictions that may come our way, we would still contend with death. The Bible says, “it is appointed for men once to die, and after this, the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). Paul wrote, “So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:6-8). Notice the juxtaposition of life and death in these verses. We are confident being in the body, but we are also pleased to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. Death has no power over us. Christians don’t invite death, but they accept its reality. Revelation 14:13 states, “Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, ‘Write: “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.’” Jesus has released us from the fear of death (Hebrews 2:14-15). Do we trust Him?