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My Mother
Oct. 6, 1924 to March 27, 2020
95 years old
Autobiography Memorial Service Bulletin (PDF Download)
March 24, 2020
Mom's Relationship with Jesus Christ...
I love my mom so do not take this wrong. Mom was a genuinely nice and accepting person. She did get frustrated when under pressure, but most people do. She ‘never meet a stranger’ as she could make friends with anyone. However, she was a people pleaser. She wanted everyone to like her and would not say anything if she though it would cause anyone to think would hurt their feelings. People who do that often appear to agree with whoever they are with (even when they don’t) as they don’t want to be disapproved of or disliked.
As to her relationship with Jesus Christ...
People don’t go to heaven because they are nice. Romans 3 says:
"But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,..."
(Romans 3:21-23 ESV)
I cannot say with certainty where Mom is right now. My Dad (Irene’s husband) never gave his life to Christ, and I don’t know about my sisters. Ruth, Naomi or my niece Jennifer. All three of them also avoided any talk with me about Christ. So, assuming that they are all up in heaven with each other is making assumptions not based on the Bible.
I have heard a lot or talk about Mom putting trust in God, but none about her telling others about how they needed a savior and the need to repent of their sin and follow Christ. Blindly trusting God without coming to him through Christ is not the way it works.
Romans 3 goes on to state:
"But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law."
(Romans 3:21-31 ESV)
Salvation is about being saved from the power of sin (and of course the eternal consequences), but ultimately it is if you want to live for Christ or yourself.
So perhaps this is an appropriate time for you to think about where you will spend eternity.