I Am Because You Are August 27, 2025 Devotional

1 CORINTHIANS 15:54-55 | ⁵⁴ When this perishable body puts on imperishability and this mortal body puts on                    immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” ⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

PSALM 55:4-5 | ⁴My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. ⁵ Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

The deepest human fear is perhaps the fear of an ending. Our own deaths, usually uncertain in time, but inevitable in their eventuality, can cast a pall over our existence. Will our final moments be a       period, stopping the sentences of our lives? A question mark? Death means for many, the end of relationships and aspirations. A moment that overshadows all we have been and done and currently are doing and being. Remaining questions won’t be answered, goals remain unreachable, fresh experiences lost and gone before they are known.

Christianity believes “death has lost it’s sting,” it’s power to diminish our lives and discourage our hopes. Our lives don’t end, they culminate in a series of exclamation points.

Do you fear your ending?

Gracious God,

May Your triumph over death be real to me, a source of hope, an assurance of the culmination of my life.

Amen.