It’s amazing how we remember important dates in our lives- well at least most of us do. We remember when we were born, it is required on a lot of things. We remember when our children and grandchildren were born. We remember our wedding. We also remember the date when or if one of our children left this world too young as in before we do. The end of May marks the anniversary of our son Zach’s graduation into heaven. I can tell you exactly where I was at when that happened and I can also relive the emotions of what I was going through. It will be 12 years on May 30 and though time has erased much of the pain, it is never completely gone. That is our human side responding to human pain.
What carries someone like me to get to this point where the pain is not what it was besides time? It is the everlasting promise of a wonderful savior who died for me. He took my sins as well as yours to the cross to satisfy a loving God who is Holy beyond anything any of us myself especially can completely understand. It was a beautiful gift of love and mercy. It gives each of us an alternative. We can choose Christ and submit to His authority or we can choose the world. One ends in being in the presence of God for all eternity and the other in hell. Zach to my knowledge asked Christ to be lord of his life. To my knowledge that is where his soul currently dwells. Though seeing Zach will be a great joy, he is no longer and has not been for many years, the main focus of what draws me to heaven. It is being in God’s presence. It is being in the arms of Christ. It is everything to do with the Lord. It draws me continually. I pray that it draws you too.