So the house will remain...

Monday March 15, 2021

So the house will remain...

We have not brought anything into the world and it is obvious that we cannot take anything out of it. 1 Timothy 6.7

A sympathetic nonagenarian chats with Thibault, five years old. Later, I inform my grandson that the gentleman lives alone.

Thibault : "He doesn't have a mom ?"

Me : “You know, she's been dead for a long time."

Thibault : "Afterwards, it will be him... Then the house will remain with lots of things..."

I pensive about the wisdom of these childish words. That's right, the house... will remain, with everything in it, the man will take nothing. The Pharaohs had another belief : they had their wife and their dog buried with them, in the hope of continuing the adventure with them in their converted pyramid-tomb !

Belief from another time ? Not so sure ! I note all the same that many people imagine life in the hereafter as a simple continuation of their existence here below, and we are sometimes reassured by calling out to a dead person : "Where you are, put a cold beer for me !"

What a tragic illusion ! However, it contains an element of truth, very different depending on the person :

Whoever has lived without God on this earth, refusing the grace of the Savior, will spend eternity without God, deprived of all that emanates from him : love, joy, peace...

But he who will have lived here below with his Savior, will spend his eternity with him in infinite happiness.

Which continuity will you choose ?

Claude Schneider

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Proposed Reading : Gospel according to John, chapter 3, verses 16 to 21.

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