✏️ Letter to My Children (3) - Life and Death from God's Perspective

 

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 In our lives, we experience many deaths around us and sometimes have to say goodbye to our loved ones first. In truth, it is nearly impossible to comfort the pain and sorrow of losing someone with human words alone. That is why I want to look at this parting not through our limited human thoughts, but from God's perspective.

How does life and death look in the eyes of God? The Bible provides a clear answer:

📖 "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive." (Luke 20:38)

📖 "‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living." (Matthew 22:32)

These words mean that in God's eyes, 'here' where we live and 'there' after death are both worlds of life, no different from each other. It reminds us that we have simply moved from one side to the other, and before God, we are all still living beings.

The Moon Requires an Item; the Other World Requires Giving It Up!

Let me share a unique analogy. To go to the moon, a person must wear a heavy 'spacesuit.' You can think of it as a mandatory item to maintain life in an environment without oxygen.

However, the principle of going to 'the other world' is exactly the opposite!

Being alive means being equipped for this environment with a physical body. But to enter the other world, you must shed the burden of the flesh to get there.

We call this process of setting down the body 'death,' and because of the limits of our vision, we grieve and call it 'parting.' In reality, however, it is the process of returning the items of this earth in order to move to the next world.

📍 If there are any grieving families who have sent their loved ones ahead, I hope God’s great comfort reaches them first. I want everyone to know that we are all alive before God, so that those left behind can find the strength to stand again. It is simply that they are no longer visible to our eyes.