3 Things that God Does to Death

Written by Adriel Sanchez | What comes to your mind when you think about death? As a kid, I’d imagine the death of someone near to me and cry. I’ll leave it to others to parse why those types of thoughts enter a child’s mind, but I quickly came to the realization that it’d be preferable to avoid thoughts about death altogether.

Of course, it’s not possible to do this in a society where death is considered a “normal part of life,” as though death were like an estranged friend we’d be better off making peace with. Experience teaches us differently. When death forcefully confronts us, he surprises from behind like an unexpected thief, or he slowly torments us like the bully in school, assaulting our dignity over time until we’re exasperated.

Society attempts to make peace with death through acceptance, but God had different plans. According to the Bible, death isn’t a distant (or nearby) friend we should accept, but a terrible monster. The Christian faith teaches that death isn’t a natural part of humanity, but is instead its greatest enemy (1 Cor. 15:26). Hence, the Christian religion is not about preparing people for death or learning to live well in the meantime. It is the confrontation of death by God. Here’s what God does with death: