I am constantly amazed with our son Justus. He thinks of things at his age (4), which I am sure I was not thinking of. Tonight as I was putting the boys to bed, Justus asked me: "How many days until we die?" That totally took me off guard. Then with a really sad face, he said: "But dad, I don't want to die." It broke my heart to hear him talking that way. Even at that young age, he is aware of his own mortality (I am sure I was not until much older). I think it is because he has already experienced death in our family with my mom. But then he took it to the next and important step. Justus asked: "How long before we get fixed?" That is a huge part of the Christian message. We all know that we will die. We have a sense that somehow this is not the way things are supposed to be. But through Jesus' death and resurrection, there is a way for us to get fixed. Paul goes into detail about this in 1 Corinthians 15:51-58. All I could tell Justus was that I am not looking forward to death either, but that I knew that Jesus would one day fix us. Child-like faith looks different than most people think.
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