by Dave Dravecky
Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 I battled the fear of death when I was diagnosed with cancer. I couldn't bear the thought of having to leave behind my kids, my wife, my life. Something deep within me told me that death is not natural. I fought against it as if it were a foreign enemy and, in a sense, it is. Ecclesiastes 3:11 tells us that God has placed eternity into the heart of every person. We so long for life on earth to go on that we resist heaven, the true home Jesus has prepared for us. So we struggle. On one hand we are scared, on the other hand there is heaven. We wrestle back and forth between the two. And this is entirely normal.
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build up a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. Excerpted from a devotional in "The Encouragement Bible," pg 878. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing.
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