Because our Good Shepherd rose from the dead, we as His sheep will also. This is why death is not such a dreadful thing to God’s people. We are sorrowful when someone dies because we miss them here and now, but if they were born again and walking with the Lord, we know after a little while we’ll be with them again. It is alright to miss them but we must remember that they are now much better off then we are.
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.” I Corinthians 15:20. Now because of that we can say with verse 55 in the same chapter, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Verse 56, “The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.” If we are free from sin by being washed in the blood of Jesus, then that sting of death is removed.
Verse 57 says, ‘But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Verse 58, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” What a promise!
Remove the fear of death from a person and he will be hard to stop. We have been given these exceeding great and precious promises so we can be delivered from all fear and walk with the Good Shepherd with great joy.
Let There Be Life 