Dead End

There is a haunting fear of mankind, an almost universal uncertainty that asks the same question as Job, when he said, “If a man die, will he live again?” (Job 14:14)

In some ways, this fear runs deeper within us, than our love for money, or sex, or power. And Christians have something to share with this fear-ridden world, for we have a significant break-through. We know a man who conquered death, who went into the valley of the shadow…that terrible dead-end of the centuries…and he walked right through!

There is a story called “Labryinth” written by Gian-Carlo Menotti. The action centers around a newly married couple who wander around in the endless corridors of an old hotel, looking for their room. Their search is futile. And even when they finally find the room, the door is locked, and they have lost the key. Menotti says that modern man has also lost the key to the labyrinth of life, and is searching for a way out. All too often, he simply resigns himself to a lifetime of restless wandering. In his story, however, Menotti decides that the solution is death. The groom is nailed up in a coffin, and wakes up in the after-life holding the lost key. And so Menotti says: “Death is not the end of life, but its very happy solution!”

Surely we do not agree that death is the solution to life. It is not the way out of the problems we have, to simply end it all. But in death, there is an answer. And Jesus Christ, our risen Lord, holds the key that makes death not a dead end, but an open highway into something greater beyond.

We think about the long winter with its ice-covered trees. How dead they appear for those several months, but look at them in the Spring…budding forth more completely every day. The grass is barren in those frosty days of the year, but in its time of green-ness, your mower struggles with it week after week!

There is not a farmer around who does not recognize that beneath the seemingly dead soil, are the seeds of that which will nurture the butterflies, and feed the birds, and fill his world with beauty and a good harvest. Why then are we so in sorrow about the thought of death? It is not a dead end. For those who have learned to live with Him who holds the key, it is a thoroughfare to a new type of existence on a higher plateau.

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