Today as I write this, the Bolton High School community is mourning the loss of two students who were involved in a one vehicle car accident on November 9. We have a community of students and parents who grieving over a friend, student, son, and daughter. In encouraging our students of faith through this difficult time we want to impress of them a few things:
1) Life is fleeting. Scripture tells us that we are but a vapor and we don’t know when we will breath our last so we must make the most of every opportunity (Jas. 4:14; 2 Cor. 6:2, Eph. 5:15-16).
2) Our hope isn’t in living but in the one who brings Life. Students need to grieve, but they also need bring hope in the mourning that they know and trust is in the One who has conquered death (Jn.11:35; 16:33; 1 Cor. 15:54-55).
3) We don’t understand why. God’s plans are perfect and in His sovereignty we occasionally can’t understand why things happen, but we can trust in His love for us (Jer. 29:11, Is. 55:7-8; Prov. 3:5-6).
4) The death of a peer can lead to others being open to spiritual conversations and even salvation. Death naturally causes one to think about life and life is empty and hopeless without Christ (Jn.14:6; Col. 4:5-6).
I didn’t know the students who passed away, but my heart hurts for their families and their friends. We must take every day as a gift and use it according to the purposes of Christ in His mission in sharing the gospel.
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