We received some sad news on Tuesday about the loss of a friend, and the mother of Nick Garcia. Our condolences go out to Nick and the whole Garcia Family. Due to the circumstances we did not have a regular meeting as we instead met at the funeral home in Irving where a service was held for Margaret Flores. The leadership of Blood In, Blood Out was asked to share the Gospel and offer encouragement during the service. This is a hard time for all involved to deal with a loss of a family member, but in our weakness God is made strong.

The Bible speaks many times about the hope we have in Christ as believers, we will all experience death in our friends, families and ourselves, but when we lose a loved one we have to stand on the word of God a believe as Christians that they are in the very presence of God. It is a time to reflect on our own lives and evaluate where our relationship stands with God through Jesus Christ and to be assured that one day we will see our loved ones again where we will live together forever. Revelation 21:4 And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there will be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying out, nor will there be any more pain; for the first things passed away.

In John 11, Rev 22 & Rev 1: Jesus said, "I am the Resurrection and I am the Life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, yet shall they live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. I died, and behold I am alive forever more, and I hold the keys of hell and death. Because I live, you shall also live."

The Bible says many powerful things about the death of a Christian. But the trouble is that we don’t believe these things. We think of death as an end. We think of death as a time of separation but the death of a Christian is a great thing. We live in a cruel world, a world of many injustices, trials, tears, sorrow, and death. Now when death comes to take us into the presence of the Lord, where we shall have perfect health and perfect rest, wouldn’t you say that death is, after all, a good thing? We look upon death as an enemy, but really death takes us to a better place if we accept Jesus as our savior. Psalm 116:15 says, "Precious in the sight of God is the death of His saints."

 When a Christian dies it concerns the Lord. He knows about every breath that we took every pain that we endured and every groan that we uttered. It all means something to Him. Psalms 116:15 said, not that death is precious in our sight, but in God’s sight. This scripture is talking about death from God’s point of view. We don’t understand the why’s and how’s of death. But this is Gods promise to you.