TERMINAL CALLED TERMINAL

We're all gonna check in and out at the terminal called Terminal.
 
Yes, we are. Some of us will fall in and out in the same minute - quick as a plane falling out of the sky. Others will see this terminal from far out, and far too soon, and make a steady and slow approach to and through it.
 
There's no silver lining where not even the cloud is discernible, and the fact is, death is a humbling, dark mystery, that comes back and grabs even those that claim to come back from it. There will come a time you don't come back. Not long after that a time will come when no one seeks to call you back from the shadows, for they, too, will be there... We fall into death and darkness like rain falls into the raging and dark ocean. A deafening, consuming, annihilating termination.
 
I feel the sting of the 'terminal' every time. There is something about seeing this terminal and facing into it. Here's my consolation: We were never meant to!
 
The reason we tremble at this terminal is because we were not made to go through it. We quake - and if we don't, we should - because it is a reality that was spawned from mankind's dark rebellion against God. Death is the picture, the face, of our rebellion and sin. We read about this in the first 3 chapters of the Bible, and the rest of Bible sets out to deal with it.
 
It is against the backdrop of this 'reality' that the story and message of Jesus Christ is so powerful! He comes to us, even in our grief and loss of others, and lifts our chin, lifts our eyes to his, and says, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.' (John 11:25-26)
 
Paul writes of Jesus' victory over death - and quoting Isaiah 25:8 - 'Death, where is your sting?' (1 Corinthians 15:55)
 
Have you walked through the door of Jesus Christ (John 10:9), so that your passage through Terminal will come out to life eternal?