Death is the single, inevitable fact of life. Life will end. All good things stop, sometimes suddenly. People die and so will I. My mortality and weakening body hovers as a dark reminder of my sentence of death. I will soon no longer exist as I now do. You couls say I was born to die.
Jesus commands us to “proclaim... death,” shifting my focus on life’s end from mine to His. I am called to herald Christ’s death until His return, which may take a while. I could, and probably will, die before His 2nd coming. I have a job to do until He comes again or until I die, whichever comes first; that is, “proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes,” (1st Corinthians 11.26).
