The beginning in the end

 It is often interesting how ends of something are the beginning of something else.  We end a school year to begin summer.  We end the summer to begin a school year.  We end singleness when we begin being married.  There is usually a beginning in an end.  Which is why I find our practical views on death so intriguing.  We have a sense that the end (death) is not really the end, but the beginning of something else.  I wonder if this is part of our innate sense of God's existence.  

When we die, something happens - what happens depends on our response to the Lord Jesus Christ.  If we have responded by grace with faith, then we will live for eternity in the presence of God.  If we have rejected the free offer of God's grace in Jesus Christ, then we have nothing but separation from God to look forward to.  But in both cases death is not the end, but the beginning of something far more vast than this life.

I wonder if you will consider today the beginning in your end.  Consider the free offer of salvation by the grace of God in Jesus Christ.