living & dying

 Read this carefully & try to think about the overarching ramifications of these words of Paul to the followers of Jesus in Rome...

Romans 14

7 For we don’t live for ourselves 

or die for ourselves. 

8 If we live, 

it’s to honor the Lord. 

And if we die, 

it’s to honor the Lord. 

So whether we live or die, 

we belong to the Lord. 

9 Christ died and rose again for this very purpose:

to be Lord both of the living 

and of the dead.