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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:6 ¶ Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:6 ¶ So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- |
Bible Question: I know this might seem really odd to be asking and please forgive me if I seem odd, but just 5 weeks ago I lost three important people to me in a fatal car accident. I know God has a set date for all of us to leave this Earth but it's hard to believe he'd take a 2 year old little girl and her 21 year old mom. Much less a 25 year old man with a 3 year old boy. Everyone has told me it wasn't their day but it was.. my qestion is...is there anyway of knowing if they went to Heaven? Is there really such a place? When I die and go to Heaven will I see them? God wouldn't do something like this would he? Any thoghts and answers will be greatly apperciated. Thank you in advance. Any verses I can read will be a big help. God bless you. |
Bible Answer: My heart goes out to you, and I cry for your hurt. But I can't cry for the children. They are with the Lord, they were not of an age to consciously choose to do what they knew was against Him. As to the others who were older...Were they born again? That is the crucial question. If they weren't, the Bible says in John 3:3 that you have to be to go to Heaven. What is even harder, is if you don't know. I lost my mother a few years ago, and I to this day do not know if she ever came to the saving heart knowledge of Jesus Christ. I gave her the knowledge, but I never knew if she made a decision. I pray she did. And I have to ask God still to give me peace about this. And He does. I think the problem with us, is we see death through mortal eyes and not God's eyes. Our lives seem to go on and are so special to us. This world is not good, we have crime, sickness, pain and death. Actually, death is a blessing because it is taking us to be with God to be truly changed and to be all we were meant to be. Our time here is to be used serving the Lord and rejoicing in Him until He calls us to Him. If there really is a God, and we know there is, then we know that God is truth and His word is true. God says there is a Heaven, so there is. Stick close to your Bible. I found the Psalms so helpful and keep praise and worship music around you. It is so hard to rejoice at a time like this, but I found the verse Neh. 8:10 to be so helpful and the song that I had to keep playing and really worshipping to was "Shout to the Lord" by Darlene Zcheck (sp). I hope they help you. |