![]() Perhaps there is something more immediate than Christ’s second coming and believers’ resurrection to eternal life that we can preach to those grieving but not without hope. But on this last note, perhaps there is some further hope we can offer. Yes, they and we will be raised with Christ one day yes, we have hope in the resurrection and yes, they are with Christ. We can also assure them that they do not grieve without hope because they, if they and their loved ones are Christ-followers, will one day see that loved one again.īut here is what faces us in the meantime: the twin realizations that-unless we too pass on soon-we will not see them face to face for a long time and that this is because our loved ones no longer live bodily on this earth. What, as Christians, can we say to those who face death, either their own or that of their loved ones? We certainly can give them the hope of Christ’s resurrection, if they or their loved one has trusted Christ in repentance and faith. Quoted in John Polkinghorne, The God of Hope and the End of the World (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), 98. ![]() ![]() This prayer, written by the great British pastor and poet John Donne, anticipates the new heaven and new earth that we will one day experience with our Lord:īring us, O Lord, at our last awakening into the house and gate of heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light no noise nor silence, but one equal music no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession no ends nor beginning, but one equal eternity in the habitation of thy glory and dominion, world without end. Awakening into the House and Gate of Heaven
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