Death

Eccl:8:8

None of us can hold back our spirit from departing. None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death. There is no escaping that obligation, that dark battle. And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue the wicked. 

Death is certain. The day of death a surity. All men who is born will face their day of death. There is no escaping it. Except you are Elijah the great prophet. 

If it is a certainty, why fear it? Man has always lived with dread of that day. Why fear? Is it the pain that you would encounter? Or is it the pain of your dear ones? Is it the uncertainty that follows it? What will happen to me? What will happen to my dear ones? 

The word of God says; yet it is a sleep. It is yet another ongoing journey. Your body will sleep. But your soul and spirit will carry on. Eternity is planted inside man. But the choices made here in this world determines that certainty. Whether it is spent in heaven, in the presence of your Creator, or hell where the enemy reigns. At time, there is eternal fullness of life vs eternal damnation. No choices can be made then. 

Death is an aftermath of sin. The fear of death, the result of man's fallenness. But when you have been picked up; when you have been forgiven, you can boldly ask. "Where Oh! death is your victory? Where is your sting?"