Psalm 146:4
Psalm 146:4 Their plans come to nothing This verse of the Psalm puts death into perspective, doesn’t it? All the princes, rulers, leaders, and heads of state who daily make the news headlines are simply going into the ground at the time of their death! The headlines will end, the images and photographs will cease, the fancy speeches and camera opportunities will terminate and that is it! Interestingly we are told here that the moment of death is when the spirit departs. Yes, we may stop breathing, yes, our bodies may let us down and cease to function, but our spirits do not die, they depart! As we have reflected, many times, the psalmists and their contemporaries believed that Sheol was the place of departed spirits, and all men and women were destined to go there. They also came to believe that the spirits of the godly or righteous, and the wicked, were treated differently but they had no understanding of resurrection and heavenly glory, it was Jesus who made these possible and o...