My friend, and more importantly my Christian brother, George Painter is dying. He started feeling bad a couple of months ago, and after going to the Doctor found out that he has cancer…everywhere. It took a few weeks from the time he first saw the Doctor until his cancer was confirmed, but once it was determined that he in fact was inflicted, he was told he had two or three weeks to live.

Betty, his wife of well over fifty years, was at church last night. I asked her how George was doing and she said, “Better than me.” Betty said “He’s ready to go, he has accepted his fate, and he is at peace, and that makes it easier for me.” I watched Betty until the worship service started as one person after another stopped by to visit with her. She was an absolute rock. She too has accepted his impending death, and is beginning to be at peace with it.

George is a student of the Bible. He is a follower of Christ. George has been washed in the blood of the Lamb. George walks in the light, he lives in the light, he demonstrates light, and he believes I John 1:5-7. 

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. ⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 

Because he believes I John 1:5-7 George also has full confidence in I John 5:13.

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Yes, my friend and brother is dying, and he is at peach with it because God has told him that he can know he has eternal life.

Till next time,

Grump