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n this life, where we may not have assurance if we’ll see the one who left home again, or if that person will ever forgive us, or if we’re even going to make it to tomorrow, we can be assured in Christ.

The shaky foundations of a lost cause ceases to be influential when the gleaming light of Christ shines upon us. The mess of our past or the aridness of the desert we may be walking through is exasperating, but the blood of Christ is sure.

The death we deserve and the blood we were doomed to spill was spilled for us as Jesus hung on Calvary’s Tree. And so, in this day as we suffer and wane, we can rest in the assurance of the blood of Christ, in life and death.

Let me cut through the veil, the illusion of comfortability in this world: each one of us will die. We may get our wills in order, pay all the costs, prepare everything for the end, but nothing will get us ready for the day that the last breath comes.

Nothing will prepare us for the moment we will all have to encounter, the moment when we will transfer from life to death. We analyze and prepare for most of our steps forward, calculating the cost, leaning on the expertise of ones that have gone before us and tell us how to get through.

But no one will be there to tell us what to expect when that day comes and our life is slowly snuffed out. Will it hurt?

It is in this moment of recognition, when we finally see that we are not invincible, that we may understand that nothing we did to benefit ourselves or someone else will keep us from the inevitable day where we will finally die.

No work or effort or good task was ever good enough to help us break through because no matter what we do, we will still receive the hand of death anyway. It is in this day that one has nothing left to do but hang onto the grace and mercy of God wrought in the blood of Christ.

Though death may seize and nothing of our work can control it, the work of Christ — who died for our sin — taking the death and hell we deserve, and rose from the grave — promising that those united with him would rise again — did it all.

Though the end will come and the grave is sure, our tombs will be empty because his was first. Rest your hope and put your faith in the Blood of Christ.

Galatians 2:20-21, English Standard Version, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.”