When All Is Said & Done!
"We are confident, yes, well pleased
rather to be absent from the body
and to be present with the Lord."
2 Corinthians 5: 8
When Lee Strobel researched his book on heaven,
he interviewed Luis Palau, Argentinian evangelist
who preached to more than a billion
people.
“He knew he was dying,” said Strobel. “He had stage four lung cancer.
I flew out to Portland because I wanted to interview someone who was
about to go to heaven….He told me he’s not afraid of dying. He
said,
‘I really believe that to be absent from the body is to be present with
the Lord.’
For the Christian, dying means immediate entrance into the
physical presence of the Lord in His great city of New
Jerusalem.
We'll leave behind (temporarily, until the resurrection) our bodies
of sickness and pain.
Yet, in the flick of an eye, we’re there
with Jesus among all His golden and
gleaming cityscapes.
The Lord will give us extra grace for the moment He
takes us home. For that reason, we are confident—
even well pleased—to be with Him.
"I can tell you from personal experience that,
at the end of your life, when all is said and done,
you’ll never regret being courageous for Christ."
Luis Palau to Lee Strobel
