Newgrange is a 5,000-year-old burial passage tomb in Ireland. Built by the members of a farming community in Ireland's Boyne Valley, this magnificent structure covers more than an acre of land. It was a place where people went to struggle with the issue of death. It is best known for the beam of sunlight that moves through the chamber for 17 minutes each day from December 19 to 23 during the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Some say it serves as a powerful symbol of the victory of life over death.
Even since death entered the human experience in Genesis 3, it has been life's one great inevitability and many people's chief fear. It need not be so, however. The apostle Paul wrote, "For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:17). From that moment in the Graden of Eden with the sin of our first parents, sin and death reigned. Yet we need not fear death or its consequences. Because of Christ, we can have confident hope - His victory of life over death has given us eternal life. Christ's empty tomb guarantees our victory over death. Have you received Him?
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