While Paul preached late into the night in Troas, Eutychus fell asleep in a third-story window, fell to the ground, and was taken up dead. Paul went down and embraced him. Through the apostle, God restored the young man’s life, and the believers took him home alive, greatly comforted. Death had entered their gathering, but it had met an authority greater than its own. That is where our comfort rests when loss enters our lives. We grieve, yet through Jesus Christ, who died and rose again, we have hope beyond the separation. Eutychus returned to his friends that night; those who belong to Christ await the resurrection He has promised. Death can end our days together. It cannot end the life Christ gives.
“And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.” —Acts 20:12
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