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It's been twenty years since a doctor told my husband: "Mr. Standridge, she has cancer." A similar news does not like. First of all you think about death, but also to treatment, the ups and downs, the hopes and disappointments.
is a blow. If, however, the doctor added: "It is treatable and we will do everything possible" things are colored a bit 'longer pink. This was the case of my husband who is still doing well.
The ancients did not have much diplomacy. The prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah, who reigned at the time, and said "Thus saith the Lord: Put your house in order, because you will die, not live" . Period.
The Bible says: "Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying," Lord, remember, please, I have walked before thee in fidelity and integrity of heart and have done what is good in your eyes. " Hezekiah broke out in a large western (Isaiah 38:1-3).
Then the Lord told Isaiah to go and tell the king that the Lord heard him and that his life would be extended to fifteen years. And so it was. Hezekiah was healed and he continued to reign. But his fifteen years aggunti were not a good time.
For example, Hezekiah sin of pride, making displays of wealth that had accumulated, to the Babylonian ambassadors, who came to congratulate him on his recovery and took good note of his great wealth. Isaiah predicted that these treasures would all become booty the Babylonians and that some of his children were enslaved. The answer was symptomatic of the King and speaks volumes about his selfishness, "Okay. At least going to happen when I'm dead. "
But the most serious thing that happened in that period was that he had a son, Manasseh, who succeeded to the throne and was one of the worst kings of Judah for idolatry and the occult. If Hezekiah had done fewer stories, he had not been lengthened life, it would be good for the people.
No human being wants to die. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe agony of death and not like any normal person. But I also feel sorry to those who believe that talking about death, hope that comes "later as possible. "
Yet, the apostle Paul said that "the die is gain" because he knew awaited him a perfectly happy life for all eternity in the presence of the Lord and in total perfection.
I like to read the last chapters of Revelation. I read them when things do not go too well, because it seems to me to read a novel with a happy ending for those who know Jesus and welcomed him into her life as Savior and Lord. Then it will be perfectly true that "we will live happily ever after."
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