My family said good-bye to my Aunt Johanna today. She died of ALS at 80 years old. Aunt Johanna wrote the funeral service that we had for her today and she told the pastor that she wanted the focus of her funeral to be Jesus, the Savior, not herself. The pastor did a great job with the sermon. What he said was that while ALS is a horrible disease, God made us to live, not to die and that we can live most fully with God. What I appreciated most about this when I read Micah 2 today is that you can preach about seeing the world through rose colored glasses, or you can preach about living joyfully with God.
In context, Micah is writing to people who are having their land stolen and their friends and neighbors killed. My Aunt was looking towards a death where her body is stolen from her while her mind is still fully functional. Things are scary. But to tell people that things will be fine doesn't help anything and no one is comforted. But claiming the Lord to be your Savior and shepherd allows one to live knowing that things may be difficult and you might not make it through, but a new Jerusalem awaits.
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