God’s Faithful Children

[308 words] “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints” (Psalm 116:15). This verse from the Psalms causes our minds to reflect on the many Christians who have passed from this life. We know that, in spite of the great strides in the world of medicine, death comes to everyone. Just as surely as we are born we will die, unless, of course, the Lord comes again during our lifetime. The writer of the Hebrew letter tells us, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27). The faithful children will then go home to be with God forever. God, in the very beginning of creation, looked and saw that mankind would need a Savior. So when the time was ready, according to his plan, God sent His only begotten Son from heaven to earth to be…