Have you had a loved one who died?  Notice I said “had”, because #death is the absence of life.  None of us want to talk about dying, but we know that our mortal bodies cannot last forever.  As I age, I realize how swiftly time goes bye as I watch my speed just fly away!  When death comes to the young or those in the prime of their lives, we are mortified.  Everyday I am thankful for all the young men and women who have given their lives voluntarily serving and protecting our freedom.  I am brought to my knees in humble adoration before our Savior, Jesus Christ who shouldered my sin by dying at the prime of His earthly life on that heinous cross while suffering His sacrificial death so that  I can now choose to live eternally with Him.   His earthly death has given me everlasting life.  He is the way, the truth, and the life.  This is our choice – life with Christ our Redeemer or /my way day by day!  Rom.5:6-10 “For we were without strength, in due time CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY.  Perhaps for a righteous man will one die: or for a good man some would even dare to die.  But GOD commends His love toward us while we were yet sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US.  Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.  When we were enemies, we were reconciled to GOD by the death of His Son, even more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”  Through His death He brings forth our new eternal life.  “For CHRIST DIED FOR ALL that we should no longer live unto ourselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” 11Corth.5:15