O death, where is thy sting?

YL requested that we would take care of her funeral arrangment should she pass away. P. Nellie met with her family members [ still pre-believers ] at the hospital. The last time I met YL she seems to be very at peace of her situation and her relationship with Jesus. For the Christian, Death is a conquered enemy - which has lost its sting of fear. When I think of YL, I only see a sweet assured smile of God's unconditional on her face. Please continue to pray for YL that she might continue to testify of Jesus love.
'But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die - but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes - it's over. On signal from the trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At hte same moment and in the same way, we'll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true:
Death swallowed by triumphant Life!
Who get the last word, oh Death?
Oh, Death, who's afraid to you now?
It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three - sin, guilt, death - are gone, the gift fo our Master, Jesus Christ.Thank God!
With all this going for us, my dear, dear friends, stand your ground. And don't hold back. Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort.
1 Cor 15;51-54 [ The Message ]