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could also give joy
Do you ever think about your death? Probably not. But ...
Not a day passes that the newspapers, TV, talk radio is not dead. Murder victims, raped, strangled, shot, committed suicide with the help of drugs, alcohol and speed.
Not to mention the deaths from cancer, which seems rampant evil in our century, infarction, icthus, diabetes, and, if the disease does not take you, there's always the poor health care that we might think.
Despite this, everyone seems to live on another planet. No one thinks that he or she could die just when he least expects it. And when one dies, friends and relatives say, "Who would have guessed?".
The technical term for this mental block is the "removal". We humans tend to "remove" from our minds, without even realizing it, all the things that we face, which could poison our minds and take away our peace of mind.
On the other hand, if someone è così indelicato di parlare della morte come di una realtà, di un’esperienza che tutti devono provare, lo si accusa di morbosità, cioè di una tendenza che sa di malattia mentale.
Allora, che razza di strambetto era quell’apostolo che ha affermato: “Per me il vivere è Cristo e il morire guadagno” !? Per dirlo chiaramente, ha affermato: “Ho il desiderio di partire (cioè di morire) e d’esser con Cristo, perché è cosa di gran lunga migliore” .
Mentre la stragrande maggioranza della gente fa di tutto per NON morire o per riuscire a scacciare del tutto il pensiero dalla sua mente, ecco a man who, as far as we know, was not sick, but that he wanted to die!
You might think either that the apostle Paul was mad or had made a discovery that no one else knew.
The secret was, in his own words, he was sure that, immediately after death, would have found the presence of Christ. In other words, he believed that being physically in the presence of the risen Christ was much better than staying in a world of disease, danger and evil. And who could say that was wrong?
In him, there was no doubt that it is not intended to eternal salvation. No fear of divine justice or go to 'hell.
not alone! He was also convinced that at the time of his death would be passed directly to the presence of God was not enough: he was sure he was expecting a reward. He wrote: "I reserved the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day" . A pretty sure! To whom, then, he said these words that concern us: and [the award] not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing ", even to them that will be expected to meet Christ with the same joy and the same certainty that he had.
think of death in this way and with this certainty does not seem at all a reason not to think about it. Indeed.
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