I’ve just discovered that there are websites that predict when you might die, purely dependant on a few questions! If anyone falls for that, I’d laughingly say, “Don’t believe it! ”But the more serious matter is what will happen to you, your body, soul and spirit, after you’ve died.
This last week we’ve just celebrated Easter, with or without the eggs, (or the eggs, with or without Easter!) And we are talking of either some preposterous illusion, or a miracle.
You can’t get away with being a Christian unless you believe in miracles - attested happenings that change the normal order of life. At Christmas, we celebrate a miraculous birth. During Jesus’ working life, he touched paralysed, blind and lame people and they were healed. Then three days after crucifixion, he was alive again, and later was “taken up to heaven” without dying.
When he was on earth, Jesus told his followers that he was preparing a place for us in heaven, and Christian believers today take up that promise.
My late husband, when he had a major stroke , with four year old daughter asleep upstairs, was totally healed by the next day!
This puzzled the hospital, but he told us that he saw brilliant glory behind him and daren’t turn round, so we must have prayed him back to life. This stroke was confirmed by the post mortem when he actually died.
I believe in heaven and I’m going there, not because of my worth, but because my faith is in Jesus.
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