day no. 16,695: death is on death row

“If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands” — George Macdonald

If we knew what God knows, we would laugh a lot more. Not because death isn't as bad as it seems, but because resurrection is more than we can imagine. Death is an enemy, but it is the last one. The one who dies by grace through faith in Christ alone vanquishes his last foe. In dying, all his enemies are slain. There remains no Sabbath rest for death. It will end and never begin again.

Revelation 2:11

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. 

The second death cannot overcome the resurrection. The one who overcomes in Christ cannot be stopped by a second death. For him, that enemy has already been defeated. He is invincible in Christ.

1 John 5:4

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

We overcome the world by believing in the resurrection of Christ. In Him, we are born again into the life of the indestructible God and like Him, we will not be destroyed.

1 Corinthians 15:25-26

For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Because Christ reigns, death doesn't. Death is on death row awaiting execution. He will watch all his friends die. He will see his empire eradicated. And then, he will come to his end.