"The aging process is also a gift from God, as is death. The eventual death of your mortal body is essential to God’s great plan of happiness.12 Why? Because death will allow your spirit to return home to Him.13 From an eternal perspective, death is only premature for those who are not prepared to meet God.
With your body being such a vital part of God’s eternal plan, it is little wonder that the Apostle Paul described it as a “temple of God.”"
1 Corinthians 6: 9,20
9 What? know ye not that your a body is the b temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not yourc own?
20 For ye are a bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Psalm 116
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous—Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints.
1 I a love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the a pains of b hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is a merciful.
6 The Lord preserveth the a simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
9 I will walk before the Lord in the a land of the living.
11 I said in my a haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I a render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?
15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the a death of his saints.
16 O Lord, truly I am thy a servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will a callupon the name of the Lord.
19 In the a courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
