Most people spend their lives trying to avoid death, yet Scripture asks a far more important question: are we ready for it? Romans 5 reminds us that through faith in Jesus we are justified and can rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, not fear it. This hope is not uncertain or wishful thinking but a confident expectation grounded in God’s promises. Because of Christ, death is no longer a loss but a gain, a doorway into God’s presence where sorrow, sickness, and death no longer exist. When eternity matters more than the present, our perspective on living and dying changes. Jesus has removed the sting of death, and for those who are in Him, the light is not going out, it is only getting brighter.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. – Romans 5:1–5 (ESV)