Skagway, Alaska
Jefferson Smith (a.k.a. Soapy Smith) thought that he could outwit a group of vigilantes who were fed up with his reign of terror in Skagway during the Alaska gold rush. He was wrong. This tombstone is evidence of this fact.
We cannot outsmart death, yet we live with the illusion that we can. We believe that if we eat the right food, get the proper amount of exercise and reduce stress we'll fool death. We don't trick death. Death cons us, or rather sin through death cons us in thinking we can.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 New Living Translation
Sin causes us to believe the lie that we are immortal. Yet the Immortal One becomes death for us. And through his death and resurrection we experience eternal life.
The older I get and the more that the experiences of death pile upon each other, the more I look forward to being clothed with immortality (1 Corinthians 15:53).
Today is Good Friday. It is good not because of the horror of crucifixion but because of the one who clothes himself in death that we might be clothed in his life.
Death has been outsmarted by Christ.
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We cannot outsmart death, yet we live with the illusion that we can. We believe that if we eat the right food, get the proper amount of exercise and reduce stress we'll fool death. We don't trick death. Death cons us, or rather sin through death cons us in thinking we can.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 New Living Translation
Sin causes us to believe the lie that we are immortal. Yet the Immortal One becomes death for us. And through his death and resurrection we experience eternal life.
The older I get and the more that the experiences of death pile upon each other, the more I look forward to being clothed with immortality (1 Corinthians 15:53).
Today is Good Friday. It is good not because of the horror of crucifixion but because of the one who clothes himself in death that we might be clothed in his life.
Death has been outsmarted by Christ.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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