Sitting days in a hospital you see many things about life and death. Paul is my favorite example for many things and Philippians 1: 21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain, came to me this morning.
During this same time with my mom I drove up on a baby fawn that someone hit with their car and it was still alive. It had compound fractures a head and eye injury and eternal injuries , my heart ached. I was on my way with my mom to a heart test but stopped. I love life of all things so I held this beautiful creature and wondered if it could be saved. God gave me “sometimes death is better than life.” I flagged down several men to ask if they had anything to put this animal out of its misery. Finally a man said he did and he said something to me I will never forget,” I will do as you order. “I had to give the order of a quick death. The fawn would have died eventually but God allowed me to see many things in this event.

We fight harder to stay alive now than ever before. We have to sign papers to die naturally and not be kept alive by machines. I had to locate my moms DNR and I thought about how they lived and died in Scriptures.
Paul and all the believers in Scriptures understood what waits on the other side. We do not understand Heaven as they did then. I saw someone ask the question what would you do to stay alive if war breaks out and things get bad, the answers where alarming. We do not spend enough time in the beginning of the Bible to know we serve The God that rained manna from Heaven.
To understand God holds life and death in His hands is a peace that Paul had. We think we have taken many things out of God's hands like life and death and a machine or bottle is what keeps us alive , that is because we have forgot this.
1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. If we are not where Paul was about life and death , then we need to ask God to help us get there. As I looked at all my moms prescrition bottles I wondered what would happen if she only had one that was empty and Jesus was written on it? We are a long ways from Mark 5:26 …