Our lives are so frail and vulnerable. We walk through life always on the thin ice of our mortality and who knows when it will crack beneath us. As you can see from this section of 2 Corinthians 5, Paul lived with an acute consciousness of his frail mortality. He did not fear death, but he was always aware of it. That awareness shaped his view of life. He lived with a great sense of the contradiction between death and the ultimate will of God. Love spurns death because love desires eternal togetherness. There is nothing worse than death and bereavement because there is nothing greater than love. Jesus came to conquer death. Through his victory we can now face death, not as the end of togetherness, but as the beginning of eternal togetherness. We should reflect on our mortality more. Most people avoid thinking about death. They dismiss it as a morbid subject. But for Christians there is great benefit in reflecting on death. It should be a subject of joy for us. Let your heart begin to long for what lies on the other side of our mortal existence. Set your heart on what lies in eternal life after your frail body has been done away with. You will receive new life in a new body in a renewed heavenly earth. If you have lost a loved one to death, someone that you treasured, let your heart go where your ‘treasure’ is and remain there. Those who die in Christ are more alive now where they are than we are here. So, grieve for yourself, but not for them.
Reflect on your mortality.
Read 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
