On Living and Dying

When you live a life for God, He will honor you as you honor Him; When your life is built on the right things, God will bless you.

Cursed are the living, blessed are the dying.
The living live on in sin, the righteous pass away.
The righteous are sooner reunited with their heavenly Lover.
The living continue to heap ashes and coal over their heads.
She has lived a fulfilled life in God.
Whether she passes or stays on, she is secure in Him.
But those who live on each day, live without her,
How I pray for them–
The soldiers that are not relieved from battle,
Who still face temptation and are cut and bruised and tortured.

And yet, still, all life is held in God’s hands.
Who He takes and whom He does not,
No one knows.
And only He knows when and why.

For this we do not need to worry.
For He has His purpose.
And He is right and just.

True that I have never lost a man to death;
Known a person lost to death.
When that comes to pass,
I will see more.

But this I know for now.