Hope

“Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 
Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;  and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 
“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.” 
John 11;23-27.
For those of you who do not know this is part of the story of Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead. Something else that if not true would have been left out of the New Testament. The fact of the matter is it is true.
This evening at church I heard a sad story. A woman had died she was quite young as I understand it only in her late forties early fifties.
The husband had no kind of faith and was very bitter and distraught at her dying. They had a simple ceremony. They scattered her cremated ashes on the wind.
For the husband she was gone forever. That spark that we Christians call the soul had been extinguished forever and he would never see her again.
I have never been able to believe such a thing. I believe man was made to live on through eternity. I believe as Martha
 “Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 
Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;  and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 
“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.” 
John 11;23-27.
Jesus for me is the hope of all mankind.
I have an unshakeable faith that by accepting Jesus as my Lord and Saviour even though this mortal body of mine will die. I will live on through eternity. At peace with God.
What do you think?