Oh Death Where is Your Sting?

Been thinking on those words lately... Never really understood them before not that I "understand" them well even now but still just some thoughts in that direction.

Death, the ultimate punishment for the original disobedience...We were meant for life and then out of jealousy both on the part of the evil one and the first human female we were robbed of it. We were then destined for eternal death, separation from our God from our promised future of light and life.  God in His great compassion and think too in His perhaps sense of loss over losing the precious souls He so loved and created to be with Him decided to undo the damage done...Almost reminds me of the fairy tale of Aurora, aka Sleeping Beauty who is cursed with death at the prick of the spindle but then the last good fairy softens the blow and causes deep sleep instead of death. There is such a parallel here. We as Aurora had a bright future ahead of us.  Look at the similarities: then the evil one/ evil fairy comes and robs us/her of that gift. Then a Redeemer-Jesus /good fairy comes and softens the blow.  Aurora sleeps for 100 years to be awakened by the kiss of her true love...We still "die" but we do not experience true death unless we remove ourselves willingly from God's grace. We "sleep" until the end of the world to be awakened by the "kiss" of our true love God! Then we shall awake to a wonderful new life! How the evil one must fume as did the evil fairy over the redemption of their curse... Death where is your sting? It is no more...The death of the body here is but a transition into a new life, not a loss of life...We are born again through our baptism into the life of the Creator who desires nothing more than to share His divine life and goodness with us. So henceforth friend fear not death of the body but as the Bible says fear those who can kill the body and the SOUL, that is to be feared not simply the human physical death...We WILL rise to a new whole and perfect body that will be incorruptable without stain or illness or anything the evil wished upon us in jealously of what we are destined for and he has lost.

GG