Michael Ames Malter

To the Malter Family
I would like to take this time to express my personal condolences to the entire family. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this hour of great sadness.  When death strikes, it gives everyone the chance to reflect back on life.  Indeed during this time we will ponder over many question.  One such question is if a person dies, can He live again?  Yes what is the possibility that life can be restored back to our love one.  No this is not a new question.  It has been asked by people from many generations.  Some may answer yes, no, or maybe.  Yet the correct answer to this question will be provided by God Himself.  So from the scriptures He provides this loving answer.  Job a faithful servant of God dealt with many hardship.  They overwhelm him so much that He wanted to die to escape his pain.  Then He ask, if a able bodied man dies, can He live again.  This Job states that He would wait until his relief comes. (Job 14:13-14.  How was Job able to answer this question correctly.  He knew that God was the source of all created life.  Yes even if a person dies, God has the power, yes the desire to restore life back to His human family.  Which now brings us to the presence time.  We have seen many family members and friends die right before our very eyes.  Their lost has bought great hardship for all surviving members.  So in God's great love and concern for us He provides this wonderful promise.  HE tells us that soon He would call to those in the grave, and that our love ones would hear His voice and stand up in life again. (John 5:28-29)  Yes only God can make such a promise, and then to carry such a promise out to completion.  If fact to the Malter family, and to billions of other family, this promise serves as a personal guarantee from God that Michael, and a great multitude of others will have their lives restored back to them.  In the scriptures you can read all about this promise from God.  You can also read the nine accounts that speaks about the future resurrection hope that many will attain.  Here is just one such example recorded at John 11:32-44.  So in closing I say please keep this promise of God near your hearts at all times. Remember that God has given us His persona guarantee that the resurrection blessing will take place earth wide.  Yes when God gives a promise, it becomes reality.  For God does not lie. (Titus 1:2)       

I am so sorry for your loss.  Please know that you are never alone.  You can find much comfort in God’s Word, the Bible, which assures us at Psalms 34:18 that God is near to those broken at heart and crushed in spirit. Please accept my deepest sympathies.