He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. (Isaiah 25:8 ESV)
Death
God’s love is not a minor thing. His love is immeasurable. His love is limitless. His love is infinite. And while He shows that love to His people in tiny ways every day, His love is not only found in the small details. Don’t get me wrong, I praise Him for those small, often unnoticed actions.
He holds oxygen and hydrogen together in the correct proportion so His people have water.
He makes gravity, strangely considered by physicists as the weakest attraction, so that we can walk, and run, and sit.
He empowers electricity so that God’s people can see at night, be warm in the cold, and dry our hair quickly.
But His love also has taken care of more dramatic things.
The biggest of all, the most shocking thing that His love caused, the most important result of His love, is that death is no longer simply the result of sin’s curse… terrible, painful, and final. God’s love, displayed as He gave up His Son’s life for us, swallowed up death.
Now death is merely the doorway into God’s complete Kingdom.
Yes, it still has sting. Yes, it still causes sorrow. Yes, it is still connected to Sin.
But God, in love, through love, and because of love, swallowed it, digested it, and changed it.
God’s love was powerful enough to destroy death.
That is a lot of love.