Death always ends in a tomb of some kind which is the final resting place. On the flip side, human life always begins in a womb resulting in a birth. Death is an end. Birth is a beginning. Jesus put death and life in perspective for us as believers. He said �I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever believeth in me shall never die.� It appears this is a clear reference to the rapture. The dead in Christ shall rise first to an eternal bodily life again. Though dead they shall live again and those that are alive at his appearing shall never die. The key is believing in Jesus who is the resurrection and the life. So, it could be emphatically declared �all who believe in Jesus now have life� through being born again which is the beginning of a new life created in Christ.
An amazing thing about this life is the magnificent grace of God and everlasting mercies given to one that knells at Calvary and believes and receives Jesus. I didn�t say, saying you believe, but I am saying actually believing in Jesus. When one does, they find they have been born again passing from death into life. Also, they discover there is truly a remedy for sin. It�s called the blood of Jesus! They find there is a remedy for all the mistakes, faults, failures, sickness, and disease of one�s life. It�s called Calvary! They learn there is a remedy for death. It�s called the empty tomb! The cornerstone of the Christian faith is the empty tomb or emphatically the resurrection of the dead. Jesus arose from the dead and became the first fruits of resurrection. An icon of that resurrection is the stone that was rolled away, not so Jesus could get out, but so we could get in to see where he lay. But there is so much more benefit than just seeing he is not there. There is the benefit of all our shame, disgrace, sins, and faults being laid to rest in the empty tomb. It could be said that Christ made it empty so our sins and transgressions could be buried there. In other words, our sins and transgressions are buried in a tomb of time never to be remembered against us again. The writer in Hebrews said �And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.� (Heb. 10:17) The Psalmist says, �As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.� (Ps. 103:12) They are gone! They are dead! They are buried in a tomb of time!
At the same time, there is a womb of time where God has impregnated a destiny for each and every believer. We have heard the expression �destiny�s child.� Truly, �destiny�s child� is growing in the womb of time for every child of faith. And in due season God will bring forth the birth of destiny in every one longing to see His plan fulfilled in their lives. Although God has destiny gestating in the womb of time, many never reach the birthing of that destiny because they have never grown in understanding the vision of what their destiny will be. The tragedy of the child of faith is to never grow or mature. If a young child would never grow mentally as they grow physically, we would say what a tragedy. Is that not true of understanding the revelation of your destiny for your life? One can never know of their destiny in the womb of time unless it is revealed unto them and that in essence is the vision. Solomon the wisest of kings writes in Proverbs, �Where there is no vision, the people perish:..�(Prov. 29:18) In order to understand the vision in preparation for the birth of destiny in our lives, we must allow the Holy Spirit and God�s Word to bring us to a place of maturity so we can understand the purpose and relevance of our destiny.
In His time, In His time, He makes everything beautiful, In His time. He's the head and we are the tail, He makes everything beautiful, In His time. He has everything under control in the earth. Therefore I bow my knees to the LORD Jesus Christ.:bow:
