Living in Kermit Texas I have found there are several things you learn to live with. One is the sand, another is the scorpions and then the wasp. My body responds very negative to all three of these nuisances. Although I learned last year how to be the one in control when it comes to the wasp. We have a swimming pool and the wasp love building their hives around my house. I had wasp swarming everywhere. Every time I would get into the pool there would be three or four joining me. I love company but not that sort of company.
Two nights ago I decided I would try to get rid of them. I heard if you spray them at night they can't fly. We soon found this is really true. One of the hives had about 20 wasp on it and I was thinking, "if this doesn't work we better run for our lives". As we began to spray, the wasp began to drop. No running, no flinging my arms everywhere trying to keep them away from me. Just patiently standing there watching them drop to the ground. What a cool thing. The very thing that use to scar me now gives me great satisfaction. This reminded me of the verse in the bible where death has lost it's sting.
Death is horrible. It is something that we know is going to happen to us and to our loved ones eventually. There is no scripture in the Word of God that says, "now that you accepted Christ you live on this side of the mountain, the place that death never visits". No, it just doesn't happen that way. Each of us will experience death but we do not have to experience the sting of death. When Jesus died on the cross, he removed the sting. We may have to go to the grave but my friend, we do not have to stay there. The angel will come and lift us up and as he carries us into glory, he is waving the stinger and saying to satan, "This one is mine, you see the stinger has been removed from this child by the blood of the lamb. You have no power or control over her any longer".
When Christ died on the cross he took the wrath of God's-forsakenness upon himself. Although he was innocent he took the punishment so that others could be saved. At this moment he cried out, " Eli, Eli, lema sabachtani," which means "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me". At noon the sky became black. As with the wasp at night, satan became defeated. He lost his sting. God couldn't look upon sin and Christ became sin for us. He removed the stinger from you and I so that we could be set free.
Living He loved me
Dying He saved me
Buried He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified freely forever
One day he’s coming, O Glorious Day.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
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