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“THINKABOUTIT” THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Monday; June 16, 2008

                                     

         In 1970, the country singer, Charley Pride had a big hit with, “Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone”.  In the song, Charley made reference to an old saying in the lyric, “Sleeping under a table in a roadside park, a man could wake up dead …”.  In this lament of a broken heart, we find an interesting hyperbole – or is it? 

         Actually, unless we are alive to personally watch the second coming of the Lord, that is exactly what will happen,  we will all wake up dead.  Throughout the Bible we are told that there will be a life after death.  The apostle Paul noted the surety of man’s resurrection when he wrote, “… in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.”  (I Corinthians 15:52).     

         The certainty of the resurrection is important; but, not as pressing as the question, “Where will we spend it?”  You see, the same people who believed in an afterlife, believed in an eternal reward and punishment.  Are we ready to wake up dead?  

          Think about it!  For the Madison Avenue Church of Christ; this is Charlie Wharton.

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