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But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself.

—Ps 49:15

• People usually don’t choose to picnic in a cemetery; it is a place of sadness, sorrow, and painful memories.

• A part of the good news of the gospel is that Jesus could not stay dead in the tomb, and because we are united with him, we will not stay dead in our graves: “because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence” (2 Cor 4:14).

• Praise God that the redemption price has been paid for our release from the grave and from death. We have “crossed over from death to life” (John 5:24), and thus we “will never see death” (John 8:51). We need not live in fear of death or of what comes after, for God will “surely take me to himself.” We can even picnic in a cemetery if we want, because we know that death has lost its terror.