All is well
They knew, those people of the new covenant, when death invaded their dearest and most precious relationships, when this grim ruthless fact — man’s ultimate enemy, the mark of his fallen condition and the wages of his sin — confronted them with its merciless finality, they knew that death was no longer the frightful contradiction of all human hope which once it seemed to be. For their eyes had watched death’s bondage being broken and the darkness routed and the fall reversed. The sting of death was sin, and the strength of sin was the law; but now they knew that the sting was drawn, and the strong tyrant reduced to impotence. No more could sin threaten to sever the soul from God. No longer could the law annihilate the sinner with condemnation and despair. They had seen One coming back out of the shadows to tell them all was well.
A Faith to Proclaim
(Vancouver, BC: Regent College Publishing, 2002), 133
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