CHANGED RESIDENCE

This story is told about a pastor of a small congregation. He kept a meticulous register of all his parishioners. So convinced was he of life after death, and of the promises of Jesus about eternal life, that whenever a parishioner died, he did not delete the name from the register. He simply wrote after the person’s name, “changed residence. Gone to live elsewhere!”

Those belonging to us who have died have not gone away. They have simply gone ahead.

There is the womb of life, and the fullness of life. It’s only when a person has reached that third state that s/he has become what s/he was created to be….