So many grumpy moods!

[BBAS 64]

I am Happy also, it is getting late got up at 4 am and my wife made COOKIES!!

Rat farts can not get my pic to upload !!! NEED ANOTHER COOKIE

 

[labellady]

I'm happy! However I wish spring would hurry up and get here! It is COLD at my son's soccer practice! Have a wonderful and ungrumpy day!

 

[Cright]

Carina, I have NEVER seen you grumpy!

good.

I have been grumpy though! I even reported a thread for the first time this week. (2 days ago). I went back, and not even one comment from a mod in the thread, no PM to me, NOTHING. I had to use a emmence amount of self control to prevent myself from posting in the thread.

... but, even when I get grumpy... I really try not to bring it into a post so that I don't bring others down with me. We have too much knowledge and fun things to share between us.. no use talking about the negative, when I could be talking about something FUN!!!



Carina

 

[Lockheed]

A good friend of mine died. So I am sad. Death won one more victory.

But she's gone to be with the Savior, who will ultimately have the victory over death... so I am happy.

 

[ZiSunka]

Then death has no victory! She is not dead, her body is dead but she is alive forever more. And eventually she will get her body back, better than new.

I'm sad for you because I know you will miss her until you see her again in heaven. But I am happy for her that she finished well and has gone to her real home in heaven.

 

[Lockheed]

Then death has no victory! She is not dead, her body is dead but she is alive forever more. And eventually she will get her body back, better than new.

The good news in all of this is that “the last enemy is death.” This means that Jesus accomplished everything in his mission on earth for our complete redemption and glorification. “The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.” That is the bad news. “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 15:56). Triumph at last outruns, outspends, outstrips tragedy. But it does so at a painful cost.


Death is not a portal to life. Death is not a benign friend, but a dreaded foe. It is not a natural part of life, but the most unnatural part of life you could imagine. But in his death and Resurrection, Jesus crushed the serpent’s head, vanquishing the “last enemy” of every believer. This last enemy will one day be overcome for believers in the final resurrection of the dead, but that is because it has already objectively been vanquished in the Resurrection of our Living Head. Look at him and see what the whole harvest will be like in the end! In Christ, the end has already begun. The Head will not live without his body. The shape of the future is already present.

Michael Horton, Singing the Blues with Jesus
http://www.modernreformation.org/mh05singing.htm

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Death has the victory temporally. We all will die in the flesh because of sin and what was wrought in Adam. Death is not celebration time, it is a time for grief that once more death took life. Yes my friend is with the Lord, but at the price of His own death.


Celebration time is coming however, there is a feast waiting for us, the bride, when we arrive and our Husband again spares no expense to feed and clothe us with His righteousness, grace and love.

I'm sad for you because I know you will miss her until you see her again in heaven. But I am happy for her that she finished well and has gone to her real home in heaven.

True... but as Horton intones:

What we need again is a church that can sing the blue note in a way that faces the real world honestly and truthfully, recognizing the tragic aspect of life as even more tragic than any nihilist could imagine, while knowing that the one who raised Lazarus is now raised to the right hand of his Father, until all enemies—including death, lie in the rubble beneath his feet.



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Thanks for your kind words.