The Physical Possible Impossibility

We hate death!!!  It is why when someone famous and full of life surrounded by others of the same, even children, we are shaken to our collective core.  Why, we all know none of us are getting out of here alive.  I had to speak at a funeral a few years ago and I mentioned to a friend, Jon Larsen, that I hated death.  I will never forget his reply, “we rage against death because we are made eternal!”  Another man once wrote, “He (God) has planted eternity in the human heart”, King Solomon, the wisest human to ever live.  We all, every human, holds two things in common, we live, we die, but we all hate the latter.  A great contemporary artist, Damien Hirst, came up with one of the most prophetic art titles of all time, “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” which speaks directly to our idea about death.  My son Zac shared with the family this morning that he read that Mr. Bryant and his daughter Gianna had attended 7 a.m. mass the morning of the crash.  This one act testifies to everything written here.  Mr. Bryant himself raged against death and the last thought on his mind was that eternity awaiting him that day but just in case he prepared himself for it.  And because he was a great father he led his daughter to prepare for it as well.  Mass is a re-aligning of oneself to what matters, to placing God through Christ as Lord over your life, including when your life here ends and your life in eternity begins.  And that is what this fact testifies to.  Mr. Bryant knew he had no power over life or death, over his or his daughters, but he knew Who did, and by this simple act of childlike faith placed his and lead his daughter to place hers in Him who has overcome death.  “He (Jesus) will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain.  All these things are gone forever.”  And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look I am making everything new!”  And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”  Revelation 21