Under the terms of the Apostle Paul's "gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24) in this day of "the dispensation of the grace of God" (Eph 3:2), it is only by the pure grace of God "in Christ" that believers may stand "holy & blameless" (Eph 1:4) before Him. Believers then "become rooted and grounded 'in Christ," growing in the knowledge and grace of God. We "grow up into him (Christ) in all things..." (Eph 4:15).

The Apostle Paul, who had been through one desperate crisis after another, wrote as follows: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose”(Rom. 8:28).

How many people have found life going along smoothly for years when, all of a sudden, they have found themselves in the middle of some serious crisis!

None of us knows our future but we know God holds our future and us in his loving hands. Death is no different, no Christian is taken by the enemy in death, only unbelievers are. If we have been rebirthed by Christ's "Spirit of life" then all of our names, as well as our days are written down in "the Lamb's book of life."