Living Toward Your Destiny

Just a few words and a comma. What a fitting reflection of how little separates life from death for each one of us. ”... To live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21 – NKJV) How can anyone really insist that “to die is gain”? Charles Spurgeon says this exclamation of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians is “one of the Gospel riddles which only the Christian can truly nunderstand.” How right he is. Only the Christian faces death knowing that sin’s guilt and power to control him has been defeated. Christ has won a great victory over sin and its death, and He graciously shares this victory with all who belong to Him. In Christ, physical death is a final departure to our true destiny: eternal fellowship with Him, unpolluted by sin.