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The Mirror newspaper in UK carried a story, of  a woman who shared a picture of herself climbing into an expensive coffin on social media. The woman, a South African media personality called Zodwa Wabantu, initially shared photos of herself shopping for her own coffin, even though she is not dying. Zodwa Wabantu whose action caused confusion among her followers on Instagram wrote,

“Death! Society is so afraid to talk about death. We all gonna die, and I made a choice to purchase my own coffin while alive. It’s worth 150k.”

She later revealed she did what she did because her mother was buried in a cheap coffin, and she didn’t want the same for herself.

I don’t know if her action was one of those social media stunts meant to attract attention; and although I will not buy a coffin down, more so splurge 150k rand — which was equivalent to 8540 British Pounds at the time — on a coffin; and for all that money to be buried with me when I die; I think there is one lesson we can learn from everything she did — that we will all die someday, and need to be prepare for it.

I  have become sort of numb these days to announcements of people dying. I hear so many deaths these days that it doesn’t affect me in the way it used to previously. Most of those dying are people that used to visit us when we were in school. People who were our fathers, mothers, uncles, aunties and their contemporaries; who are mostly in their seventies and eighties.

These occurrences, and the age range within which they are happening, are no strangers to what is written in the Bible. It is a stark reminder that life inevitably ends;  and that so far as there is day and there is night, so will people be born, and so will people also die.

Psalm 90 states it clearly.

READ Psalm 90:1-10

“Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

You turn man to destruction,
And say, ‘Return, O children of men.’
For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
And like a watch in the night.
 You carry them away like a flood;
They are like a sleep.
In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
 In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
In the evening it is cut down and withers.

For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we are terrified.
 You have set our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
 For all our days have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years like a sigh.

The days of our lives are seventy years;
And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”  (Psalm 90:1-10 NKJV)

Thoughts of the brevity of life, with its numerous troubles and headaches made Moses very philosophical, resulting in the writing of Psalm 90.

As painful as his impending demise was, Moses had a good cause to say,

“Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.”

Moses knew a secret, that when God is our dwelling place, then we can transcend generations; and not fear death, because Bible says,

“Death has been swallowed up in victory.” (1 Corinthians 15:54)  

May we continue to dwell in God, so we can face death, and not fear it.

MEMORY VERSE

“Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.” (Psalm 90:1)

QUESTIONS

1. Is God your dwelling place? 

2. Why, then, would you be afraid?

PRAYER TIP

Almighty Father, we want to dwell in You, and be anchored in You; You alone are our source of security.

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BENNY MALM

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