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 | | From: | Thomas Hankin | | Subject: | Burial Causes No Grief | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:17:51 GMT |
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 | Burial Causes No Grief
Did you ever see a farmer weep as he placed seed in the ground and
covered it with the freshly turned earth? Of course not, for that sort
of burial causes no grief. The farmer knows that the buried seed will
spring up into luxuriant vegetation in due course. Human burial is
quite a different matter. It arouses far deeper emotions because of our
attachment to the precious form laid in the grave. But for Christians
this grief is tempered by the knowledge that those who die in the Lord
are safe with Him, and that one day we will be reunited with them, not
only in our spirits but in new and glorious bodies that will spring from
the grave at our Lord's coming.
"So also is the resurrection of the dead," says Paul, referring
again to his analogy of the seed. "It is sown in corruption; it is
raised in incorruption" (1 Corinthians 15:42)
from "2000+ Bible Illustrations," Death.
"2000+ Bible Illustrations" is public domain.
God Bless.
Tom.
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