Even though we each suffer in a unique and different way, we all do so because we face the common enemy which is death. But in Christ, we are given the One who has overcome death and granted us life. Our Lord Jesus Christ came to us, not simply to ransom us from death, not simply to pay a debt for us because we couldn’t pay it ourselves, not simply to suffer a horrible death for our sins. He came to do much more than this: He came to open to us once again the gate of Paradise. He came to bring joy and light to our sad and darkened hearts. He came to slay death by his death, so that death would no longer have dominion over us.