You have probably heard the news or seen the headline that Dr. Jack Kevorkian is dead. According to Ezekiel 18:23 the LORD takes “no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” That is profoundly true, and an amazing thing to consider when Dr. Kevorkian was a man whose actions opposed the Living God. Equally true are the word of David in Psalm 5: For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man (vv. 4-6). Clearly God has a way of dealing with His enemies, and He has profoundly done so through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In fact, God has defeated death by the death of Christ, and then vindicated His Son by the resurrection from the dead (see Romans 1:4). He is “‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living” (Matthew 22:32) – ironically, Jack Kevorkian’s given name was Jacob. God is a God of life. He testified to be so at the creation of the world, and testifies to the same in the new creation begun in Christ. Dr. Kevorkian did not understand this. Or if he did, he chose to oppose it. Some might argue that suffering from a terminal illness really isn’t living, and I understand what they mean in such statement, but that is to divorce the discussion apart from the life of faith, which I’m not willing to do. Even as Jesus’ life involved suffering, invariably our lives will be marked by physical suffering, and perhaps most acutely as our days in this mortal life come to an end. But even those days, even that time is to be met by faith, a faith that rests in the life that is yet to come. The actions of Dr. Kevorkian’s life testified that this life is all there is; that there’s nothing but nothing once we breath our last in this world. Those whose God is the LORD know better. They know that “Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep” (1 Corinthians 15:20). They know that those “in Christ shall be made alive” (1 Cor. 15:22). And even more, they know that Jesus is alive and reigns now, and the “he must reign until He has put all his enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Cor. 15:25-26). Yesterday marked Jesus’ ascension to His throne in Heaven forty days after His resurrection from the dead. Today Dr. Kevorkian died. I would imagine, that in some form or fashion, Jacob Kevorkian is aware that God is the God of the living, and has met the Living King.