Why Did Christians Die (2) - Time to Die

Each of us has a time to die. For some Christians, that time might coincide with a disaster.

• God never promised that we would never die. He has not even promised us a specific number of years.

• Our lives end when God considers we have finished our work on earth. That time can arrive at any stage in our lives.

• We are not good judges of when a person’s life is complete. We often think a person has died too soon, but we do not have an eternal perspective. Life on earth is a blink compared with all eternity. If a blink is shortened to half a blink, very little is lost.

• God has not made any promises about how we will die. He did not guarantee that Christians would die in their sleep. Moses dropped dead on the day his work was complete, but that probably only happens with an extremely godly life (Deut 24:5). God has not promised that we will not die in a disaster.

• Death is not the end for Christians, because we are promised life after death.

  Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you (John 14:1-2)?

  This hope is more certain than death. Christians who died in a disater are just as safe with God, as if they had died in their sleep.

• Christians have a wonderful hope, so death is not the end, but a beginning of eternal life. That hope should change our perspective on every death, especially those that occur during in a disaster.