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TRAGEDY ON EARTH! JOY IN HEAVEN?






I was privileged to travel to the City of Uyo in the year 2014 to attend the burial of the father of one of my colleagues in the office and I must confess I was greatly impressed by what I saw of the city back then.  It is no doubt a beautiful city and even currently boast of the the best stadium in Nigeria at the moment.  Please pardon my ‘temptation’ to go back to my former love – football. I go straight to the matter of the topic of the day now...




The collapse of a church in the city of Uyo has left Nigeria in a sober mood over this past weekend. The church was said to be filled to capacity following the consecration of its pastor as a bishop when the incident happened. The governor of the state was reportedly present but escaped death by whiskers while lots of lives were reportedly lost while a number of causalities littered the various hospitals in the city and beyond. This is no doubt a tragedy, whichever way one chose to look at and ETERNITY REMINDERS commiserate with the people of Akwa Ibom State and the entire nation over this sad incident.

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“However, each day we wake up, we should realize that two events often bring the greatest joy to heaven – translation of a soul from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of His dear Son to become a saint and translation (death) of a saint from this earth to heaven.” 


However, against the background of one of the articles posted here last month (WHO IS THE NEXT SAINT TO BE WELCOME HOME? READ IT HERE: https://goo.gl/wBlHrf), it has become increasingly important to ask ourselves as believers since most of the people that died were ‘believers’, WAS THERE REALLY JOY IN HEAVEN LAST SATURDAY? HOW MANY OF THOSE BELIEVERS WERE REALLY WELCOME HOME? Yes, it is a tragedy but as far as heaven is concerned, WHILE IT IS PAINFUL FOR US ON EARTH, IT IS GAINFUL FOR HEAVEN IF INDEED all of those who died made it and they are supposed to because they are saints. After all, Phil. 1:21 says “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain…”. Ps. 116:35 also says "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."  So, I guess we are not supposed to be mourning on the basis of this scripture even though nobody pray to die in such painful and gory manner – I don’t understand myself and that is one of the question I will ask the Lord when I get up there – but death is death and will come at his appointed time! 



The important question we must ask and keep asking ourselves whenever we hear news of this nature is: WILL THERE BE JOY AND CELEBRATION IN HEAVEN? ARE THEY PARTYING IN HEAVEN BECAUSE OF SAINTS THAT ARRIVED FROM HERE?  THIS SHOULD BE FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR THE ENTIRE BODY OF CHRIST! THERE IS HIGH NEED FOR A DAILY AWARENESS OF MATTERS OF ETERNITY. IT SHOULD NOT BE LEFT FOR MENTION AT PERIOD LIKE THIS ALONE! COMMENTS ARE WELCOME!


Shalom!

Oloyede Ayodele

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