Saturday, May 1, 2010

Death and Perishing, not the same thing

"...and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls." - Luke 21:16b-19 (KJV)
Jesus predicts a time of difficulty, but what strikes me is the fact that, in Jesus' world view, "death" and "perishing" are NOT the same thing.

That's curious - How can a person die yet not a hair of the head perish?!

Either this is an idiom for saying everything will turn out all right for the believer (good to know in a time of crisis), or it tells us two (2) other important things:

1) We need to adopt a broader viewpoint on life than the current one that starts at birth and ends when we expire (Matthew 10:28-30);

2) God cares more about our physical bodies than we give Him credit for (Romans 8:11)(Job 19:26).

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