As we pass from death to life, we are escorted into God’s presence.
Written by Desiree Bustamante.
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Our 41st President, George H.W. Bush, passed away on November 30, 2018. His journey, to his final resting place, was aboard a train whose engine was specifically built to honor his life.
The Bush 4141 is a locomotive that was commissioned to honor the former president in 2005. This Union Pacific train is painted to resemble Air Force One with a white body, a presidential seal, and long vertical bars of blue. The train’s sixth car, a converted baggage car called “Council Bluffs,” was fitted with transparent sides to let mourners, lining the tracks, see Bush’s flag-draped coffin. His journey took two and a half hours to his burial site, at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.
George was said to be a man of faith. If that is true then his train may have carried his body to his final resting place, but God’s angels carried him home to His heavenly father.
“As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man’s table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores.
Finally, the poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the heavenly banquet.”
Luke 16:21-22 New Living Translation
Lazarus was viewed as inferior to, and beneath, the rich man in this life, but that didn’t prevent him from having an angelic escort through eternity’s doorway. Take comfort that, no matter what our life is like while we reside on this planet, when we leave this earth to be with our Lord we will be carried to our final resting place by His angels. He has entrusted them to escort our souls on the journey to heaven.
Our faith in Christ assures us that He has prepared a place for us there. Then all of heaven will rejoice that we are now in the presence of our almighty God. What a blessed day that will be! Let that great truth encourage you, and give you peace every day.
Copyright Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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