One of two resurrections await us

For most of my adult life, I have been a member of the Missouri synod Lutheran Church. We once had a guest speaker at St. Paul's whose sermon I have always remembered. His topic began, as memory serves: “Visualize, if you will, a man and woman happily married, living in a fashionable area of the city. The husband has a college education, earns a high salary, is successful in investing, has many friends, has a high level of job security and is very devoted to his wife, who is a teacher at a community college and volunteers for various social functions during summer recess, loves cooking for her husband, and they enjoy taking extended traveling tours to various countries and are thinking of having a family when the time is right. All things going right for them, and they are dead. They refuse to know Jesus or accept Him as their personal savior.”

An appropriate post script to this story:

Our former pastor at St. Paul's, who is now retired, when conducting a funeral would often ask those in attendance: “If you were to die today, do you know where you would be tomorrow?”

One of two resurrections await us: One to eternal life and one to eternal death. The one to life is achieved only by opening the door to the Holy Spirit's call while you are still in this present world.

Richard Lanning

Alburnett