Saturday Song: Spirit, "Nature's Way"

Have you been amazed at records, tapes, or CDs you found in a discount bin or at a garage sale? I've discovered many treasures, including an album called The Best of Spirit. It was among a pile of records which a friend was trying to sell for a friend of his. I fell in love with this California psychedelic band's sound and bought the LP from my friend.

One song by Spirit dealt with the inevitability of death.  It stalks us all and there's no escaping the grim reaper. 

Check out this song here.

Due to the transgression of Adam and Eve, death is our sentence for sin. As Isaiah 64:6 (BBE) aptly puts it, "For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away."

We humans tend to think we'll never become feeble and die. Some even act as if they were gods and goddesses. But Psalms 82:6 and 7 (BBE) reminds us all, "I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High: But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth."

Even so, we who trust in Christ have the hope of resurrection to life eternal. Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 and 14 (BBE), "But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope. For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power."

furthermore, we who were born gentiles but who follow Christ were set apart from this world. As Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:12 (BBE) regarding our former condition, "That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world."

Because of these great promises in Scripture, we don't fear termination. We just go to be with our adored Master.

On Monday, if he doesn't return first, I hope to post about how God knows what he's doing.