One of the songs that people really
connected with at Rivercamp was 'The Great I Am' by Jared Anderson from New
Life Curch, Colorado Springs. The words have been circulating in my mind
throughout this week. In the first verse it says 'I want to be close, close to
your side, where heaven is real and death is a lie.' This has been a fresh
thought in our household: that death is a lie. We have been contemplating this,
especially in the midst of having several close family members passing into
eternity during this year.
They say the only certain thing in life is
death, but the truth us that Christ came that we may have life forever. It is
obviously true that these mortal bodies that carry us around will give up at
some stage but what is more real: this temporary physical life or the eternal
spiritual one?
I remember being struck by a thought I read
in a book some time ago. I think it was ‘The Gift of Pain’ by Phillip Yancey
& Dr Paul Brand. The thought being that Christ doesn't give us an easy way
to deal with death; He gives us a way to overcome it!
At the burning bush, God revealed himself to
Moses as 'I Am who I Am' - that is an eternal ongoing tense - he always was,
is, and always will be the Great I Am. And through Christ we can be with Him
forever.
God
said to Moses, “I am who I am.”
(Exodus
3:14)
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