The Scriptures teach that when followers of King Jesus die our soul is present with him. We don’t get wings, and we don’t become angels. We are no longer messy and broken and stained.
When we die, we don’t need bags of medicine to fight an invasion of cancerous death.
The Scriptures teach that when we die, followers of King Jesus won’t need to worry about tomorrow or today or forevermore. We won’t need to weep and mourn.
The Scriptures teach that when followers of King Jesus die then, our story lives on as a narrative wrapped in the grace and love of Yahweh.
I’m honored to celebrate the life and death of my father this week. And I am so grateful that his pain has ended, and these bags of medicine are no longer needed to sustain his life. Dad isn’t here any longer.
The man, Kevin Von Weaver, has left his legacy among the living.
After 8 years of battling multiple myeloma, my Dad is resting in peace because of the victory of Jesus the King.
Death has no victory in this life remembered.