Does Someone Have to Die For Others to Live?

Does someone have to die for someone else to live? Think of it this way; if you are an organ donor, then someone on the donor list can live from your death. At first, I was afraid to be an organ donor. The young and immature me thought, what if I am not really dead and they take my organs, but I realized that we all die, unless Jesus comes back first. And the insecure me was afraid of dying, but the mature, older and more secure me is not afraid of dying. We should look forward to being with Jesus in Heaven. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:8 “So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, ⁷for we walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.” (Bible Gateway ESV 2025) And Ecclesiastes says 12:7 “and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” (Bible Gateway ESV 2025)

Therefore, I would say yes, many times someone does have to die for others to live. Think about Jesus, He willingly gave his own blood on the cross for us to live, and we will live forever in Heaven with Him, if we believe in Jesus and repent of our sins. And when I say believe, I mean have a relationship with Him, even Satan knows of Jesus. I’m talking about making Jesus the Lord of our lives and submitting to Him.

What if you are an organ donor and your life-saving organ saved someone’s life that didn’t know Jesus Christ yet? What if the time that your organ extended someone’s life was enough time for them to make Jesus Christ their Lord and they accepted Him into their life and got saved from God’s wrath. I’ll add Jesus doesn’t reject us; we are the ones that reject Him. And maybe, just maybe your generosity of giving someone a second chance and extending their life was enough time for them to except Jesus into their lives and instead of dying, living in Heaven for eternity. WOW, what a thought!

So, give blood when you can, people that possibly don’t know God, could get another chance of finding God, or be an organ donor, maybe that buys them more time to find God. What a thought, not only could you extend someone’s life, but you could possibly help someone get more time to find Jesus!

God Chose Us

God Chose us first! Let that sink in. We didn’t choose God. God came running after us. John 15:16 “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” (Bible Gateway ESV 2023) What! God Chose me, and I didn’t choose him? Why is this blowing my mind? It shouldn’t blow my mind. God knows everything!

Revelation 13:8 says “And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. ⁹If anyone has an ear, let him hear (Bible Gateway ESV 2023)

Our names were written in the book of life of the Lamb before the foundation of the world.

That is mind boggling to me.

This begs the question what about the people that were not chosen by God. Why were they not chosen by God? The only way I can answer this question is that God chose us because He knew we would choose Him.

My wife is from Germany. We moved from Germany to my hometown in Arkansas. And I had strayed from God. A prodigal child if you will. My wife started working for someone at a homestead farm and thank God she did! She was constantly being invited to church and I kept saying I am not ready to go back to church fighting it, knowing that attending church is a commitment. And finally, she convinced me to go. You can feel the love of the church when you walk in. I am so glad and blessed to be back to worshipping and following Jesus Christ.

Most of my wife’s family doesn’t understand why we go to church so much and worship God and why it takes up so much of our time. We are supposed to put God first in everything we do. Her family says we are in a cult and we have some of her family visiting us, they hope the returning family members don’t come back in a cult like we are in. (we know we will be ridiculed and made fun of for our beliefs). So, my point is, God knows who will choose Him, and who will not. If we are not going to choose God, then we are already not chosen, and He already knows who will choose Him.

That doesn’t mean God doesn’t want everyone to come to the saving grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ as 2 Peter 9 says “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,^[^a^] not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” (Bible Gateway ESV 2023)

The only sin that can’t be forgiven is denying God. Luke 12:10 says “And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.” (Bible Gateway ESV 2023)

Q“ How many sins can you list that God won’t ever forgive? I worry about this, because I know I’ve not been a very good person, and some of the things I’ve done are probably on that list.

A: Only one sin that can’t be forgiven is on God’s list—and that is the sin of rejecting Him and refusing His offer of forgiveness and new life in Jesus Christ. This alone is the unforgivable sin, because it means we are saying that the Holy Spirit’s witness about Jesus is a lie (see Luke 12:10).

Why is it so serious to reject Christ? The reason, first of all, is because of who He was. He wasn’t just another religious teacher; He was God in human flesh—but when we deny this, we limit Him and assume He is unable to save us. But the Bible is clear: “No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known” (John 1:18).

The main reason why it’s so serious to reject Christ, however, is because He is God’s appointed means of salvation. Our greatest need is to have our sins forgiven; if we don’t, we have no reason to expect God to welcome us into Heaven. But by His death and resurrection Christ provided the way for us to be forgiven and cleansed of all our sins.

The Power of Prayer

On Thursday, my wife called me and told me that a tornado was spotted in Mena and it was headed our way to take cover, so I got in the safest place I know in the house, the bath tub and I started praying for not only my safety, but our safety. The kids were at Church camp and my wife wasn’t home yet.

Another friend of mine, on Facebook, said that it took a few seconds for it to register, that it wasn’t noon on Wednesday, when she heard the sirens warning people in Mena.

I’m not going to lie, I was somewhat afraid, but I also knew that God had my back. He wasn’t going to let anything happen to me, unless it was time to call me home to heaven and that did comfort me.

God heard my prayer and the tornado didn’t fully develop. It could have been much worse than it was. I truly believe God heard me and possibly others praying and his hand was on that cloud. There definitely is strength in prayer.

https://www.fox16.com/news/local-news/watch-possible-tornado-caught-on-camera-near-mena/2059209529

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxtaoUvJ0Dg