None of us really wants to die. The desire for life is planted so deeply with us that we naturally resist the threat of death. We rebel against it, fight with it, and use all of our power of human wisdom to attempt to defeat it. Our instinct for self-preservation bears witness to the power of life that God breathed into our human creation.
But there comes a time to die. Although our natural tendency is to resist it, the writer of Ecclesiastes got it right in saying that “for every matter under heaven” there is “a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2).
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