Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Bill Crowder, and I titled our reading, The Appointment.

On November 22, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, philosopher and writer Algeus Huxley, and Christian

apologist C.S. Lewis all died. Three well-known men with radically different world views.

Huxley, and agnostic, still dabbled in Eastern mysticism. Kennedy, though a Roman Catholic,

held to a humanistic philosophy,

and Lewis was a former atheist

who as an Anglican became an outspoken believer in Jesus.

Death is no respecter of persons

as all three of these well-known men

faced their appointment with death on the same day.

The Bible says that death entered the human experience when Adam and Eve disobeyed in the

Garden of Eden, a sad reality that has marked human history.

Death is the great equalizer, or as one person put it, the appointment that no one can avoid.

This is the point of Hebrews chapter 9, verse 27, where we read,

People are destined to die once and after that to face judgment.

Where do we find hope about our own appointment with death and what follows?

In Christ.

Romans chapter 6, verse 23, captures this truth perfectly.

The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

How did this gift of God become available?

Jesus, the Son of God, died to destroy death and rose from the grave to offer us life forever.

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