Death

Have you ever witnessed someone dying with cancer, or some other disease, and they slowly lost weight, slowly start losing their strength, until they were skin and bone and not enough strength left to get up and stand to their feet? It is the saddest things I have ever watched. There is a feeling of helplessness because we know down on our hearts if God does not heal them they are going to die.

As sad as a natural death is, there is another death that is worse. And that is a spiritual death. Some get hurt and over a period of time they allow Satan to eat away at their spirit filled life. I think it is worse than cancer because it tears at your mind and nervous system, you cannot get it off your mind. Day and night it becomes a weight you just do not believe you can carry anymore.

And then Satan gets control of your mind and begins to give you thoughts of hate and vengeance, and slowly these thoughts replace the thoughts of love and the next thing you know you conceive this sin in your heart. Some just quit going to church and do not want you to talk to God to them anymore therefore shutting the door to any chance of God helping them.

And then some stay in church and sit right next to or across the isle from someone and have these feelings in their heart and everything on the outside stays the same but their insides are eaten up with hurt. It finely starts to get bigger and you cannot hide anymore, so the result is you die spiritually.

That is the saddest death I have ever witnessed. It is death where over a period of years it seems like the life is drained out of a Christian and all they are left with is their religion, or their religious belief. My dad use to sing a song about a turkey buzzard sitting on the church roof looking down saying there is nothing going on here I think I will build my nest here.

In Revelations the church of Ephesus is a good example of a Christian who died a spiritual death. Even God commended them for doing everything right and being faithful. But he had somewhat against them. They had left their first love. In other words they just died. The sad thing about it was they had done this without the realization that they had died inside.

A live Christian, a happy Christian, a loving Christian and a Christian that is vibrant are the greatest picture that I have ever seen. There is actually life. A person whose cup is full and running over and everywhere they go, and to everyone they see it is obvious that they are alive. Something or someone lives insides them.

Compare that to your life. If your life is the opposite and there is no apparent fruit, if your life is not bringing results, not spreading Gods love, even though it is just through a smile, then you are probably dead. Somehow or other, whether it was a slow death, or as some, were never really alive. There was no evidence of life at the time they went through the motions of getting saved.

When you believe in Jesus you cannot be still and you cannot be quiet. You feel like you are in a new world. You can hardly contain the life that has into your life. I love Jesus more than anything else in the world. The worst thing I have encountered is to try to fellowship with the dead. It makes me look stupid, but down inside it makes me wonderfully happy because it is positive proof that I am alive.

Gene Cannon author of inspiration, hope, and spiritual articles for all people. Visit his website at http://www.awordfortoday.com

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