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From the Minister's Study
Earth aquarium is not final destination
By Rev. Mark Royall
Huron Chapel Evangelical
Missionary Church
Two years ago, I was sitting in the
waiting room in the medical clinic
behind the Goderich hospital. My
attention was drawn to the fish tank
they had there. I walked over to the
tank and as I watched the fish
swimming around, jetting back and
forth, I thought about the smallness
of their world. They were definitely
bound and limited by the glass
aquarium they lived in.
I told myself...nothing is ever
going to change for these fish. It's
not like if they swim here
successfully they will be released
into Lake Huron or into the ocean
where they can swim and explore
with greater freedom. This tank is
their life. I realized how if I came
back here a year later these fish
would still be doing the same thing,
swimming around in the same tank,
going back and forth until they died.
Well, a year came and went and I
didn't go back to see the fish in the
aquarium. However, this past week,
two years later, I decided to drop by
the clinic for the sole purpose of
seeing the fish. Guess what I found?
They were still there, swimming
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back and forth, bound by the
aquarium. Nothing had changed for
them except I think some of the
larger ones from two years ago had
died.
These are fish. This is their world.
It will always be their world. But
this is not your world as a Christian.
You are not here on earth just putting
in time, waiting for death to come
when someone will just throw you
away.
I have a routine early Sunday
mornings where I drive into Clinton
to get a coffee and a bagel. As I
drive there I spend the time praying.
On my way back from Clinton to the
church I play praise music as I
worship the Lord. It is a great start to
my Sundays.
However every Easter morning, I
take a detour and make another stop
on my way back to the church. I turn
into Ball's Cemetery just as the sun
is rising up over the horizon. I get
out and I walk slowly among the
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gravestones and I remind myself,
this is not the end for the Christian
life. This aquarium we call earth is
not our final destination in life.
Easter is all about resurrection, not
death.
I remember what we read in God's
Word where it says, "If our hope in
Christ is only for this life, we are
more to be pitied than anyone in the
world. But in fact, Christ has been
raised from the dead. He is the first
of a great harvest of all who have
died. So you see, just as death came
into the world through a man, now
the resurrection from the dead has
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begun through another man. Just as
everyone dies because we all belong
to Adam, everyone who belongs to
Christ will be given new life." 1
Corinthians 15: 19-22
Later that morning, at our Easter
service at Huron Chapel, I was so
excited when a person boldly and
publicly made the decision to follow
Jesus. They stood and declared their
desire to have Jesus become the
Lord of their life. I was so thrilled.
The only ones who would be more
excited than I would be the angels in
heaven. The Bible says, "...there is
joy in the presence of God's angels
when even one sinner repents"
This Easter another soul found
freedom. This Easter another eternal
soul realized the truth of life beyond
the grave. They found the real hope
for life outside this aquarium we call
earth. This Easter another person is
able to claim this promise from God,
"So now there is no condemnation
for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
And because you belong to Him, the
power of the life-giving Spirit has
freed you from the power of sin that
leads to death" (Romans 8:1-2).
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