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You *WILL* Exit the Box!


When I arrived at the funeral home, I was asked to wait in a side room.
Being an inquisitive soul, I looked around and realized that I was
sitting beside miniature coffins rCo models with their ends sawn off so
that you could see what the inside of each coffin looked like.

As I was sitting there, I began to think of what it would be like not
just to look inside but to *be* inside. I became greatly disturbed. I
said to myself, rCLI am a Christian. I believe in the resurrection of the body. I believe that I will die and go to heaven.rCY And yet, I still
looked at the coffin and thought to myself, rCLI donrCOt want to go in one
of these things!rCY

Then the thought came to me: rCLWhat comes to the unbelieverrCOs mind when
he or she thinks of death and dying?rCY

In the late 1960s, the United Kingdom introduced grids painted on the
roads at particularly busy intersections, called box junctions,
accompanied by signs that read, rCLDo not enter the box unless your exit
is clear.rCY The purpose of these grids and signs was to help aid traffic flow. But that day in the funeral home, what entered my mind was how apt
that signrCOs warning is when we consider that we will all be dead and lie
in a coffin. Though my body will one day be in a box, my soul will have departedrCoand my exit must then be clear.

Everybody knows that death is coming. The statistics are clear: one out
of one dies. The affairs of life lead inescapably toward the end. Yet
God the Son, who existed rCLbefore the foundation of the worldrCY (1 Peter 1:20) has come into time in order that we may know a Savior, a Friend,
and a Lord and so that we might be prepared forrCoand even long for!rCoall that eternity will bring.

You may be one of many who are prepared for just about everything that
might possibly happenrCoexcept for your exit from the box. But that exit
is the one thing for which you must be prepared. You will stand before
God. You will give an account for your life. But the message of the
gospel is that you do not need to fear that day, provided that you are trusting in Christ to bring you through. And if you are, then you can
look at a coffin and speak to your fears, for though your earthly flesh
may end up in one, your soul will not; and you will enjoy a resurrection
body that never sees the inside of a wooden box. rCLDo not enter the box unless your exit is clearrCYrCobut, gloriously, your route through is signposted with the blood of Christ and your heavenly destination awaits.

*Have no fear*!

Ref:- https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/alistair-begg/11/28/2023
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