Psalm 112:7 “They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.”
My daughter and 7 year old granddaughter were having a conversation about death. My granddaughter wondered why young ones die. She wanted God to sprinkle fairy dust on them to make them better. How do you explain to a child that death’s presence knows no age? I remember as a young girl realizing young people die when a childhood friend died from complications of Muscular Dystrophy. It changed something inside of me. I came to see that even I could die. Billy Graham said if only older people died there would never be a sense of urgency for the young.
Death even for us as adults can be a scary thing. It is reality at its most unnerving. It makes us realize the finality of life. It also makes us wake up to how we are living. We feel death’s days marching forward and its door is just a knock away. Yet, we who are believers hold on to the hope that we have something to ease our fears here on earth. 1 Corinthians 2:9 says, “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived, the things God has prepared for those who love Him.”
My granddaughter will soon have learned the same lesson each one of us learned at one time in our life. Death comes to all even the young. It is hard to watch her fairy tale glasses start to fog up. Life will happen to her and eventually she will see that the power of fairy dust is make-believe. What I pray for is that she will go to the One who holds her in His hands and loves her more than anything. He has the power to carry her through all the bad that will come her way. He also has the power to carry you through all the bad you are facing or will be facing. So watch out all you fairy dust sprinklers; our God‘s arsenal will blow that fairy dust to kingdom come.
Lord, when we were a child we thought like a child but as the hard challenges of life roll in, we realize how much we need You to hold on to.
– Michele
