Chico Basin Ranch, Colorado
I couldn't miss this skull. It's bleached white color drew my attention. As I walked around the pond near the headquarters of Chico Basin Ranch there was other evidence of death.
Life and death are evident around all of us.
"If we live, we honor the Lord, and if we die, we honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord." Romans 14:8 God's Word to the Nations
We spend so much of time living in a way that denies death. Some of us avoid funerals because they remind us of our mortality. Some us use medical procedures in an attempt to fool death. Some us wear clothes that make us feel younger.
I'm not saying that it is morally wrong to wear clothes that make us feel younger, or to have medical procedures that make us look younger, or even to avoid funerals.
What Paul understood is that both in life and in death we belong to God. Death is a terrible intrusion into our lives, a constant reminder of the power of sin. Jesus has defeated death in his resurrection and through that resurrection he has made us his own.
We are set free to live in the midst of death.
We are set free to die in the midst of life.
Whether we live or whether we die we are the Lords.
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Life and death are evident around all of us.
"If we live, we honor the Lord, and if we die, we honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord." Romans 14:8 God's Word to the Nations
We spend so much of time living in a way that denies death. Some of us avoid funerals because they remind us of our mortality. Some us use medical procedures in an attempt to fool death. Some us wear clothes that make us feel younger.
I'm not saying that it is morally wrong to wear clothes that make us feel younger, or to have medical procedures that make us look younger, or even to avoid funerals.
What Paul understood is that both in life and in death we belong to God. Death is a terrible intrusion into our lives, a constant reminder of the power of sin. Jesus has defeated death in his resurrection and through that resurrection he has made us his own.
We are set free to live in the midst of death.
We are set free to die in the midst of life.
Whether we live or whether we die we are the Lords.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2014 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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