Philip Larkin ( Isaiah 53 )

Philip Larkin was well known and respected poet ,he refused the honour of Poet Laureate, I have not read  many of  his poems. A poem on parenthood has corse language in it, and appears very cynical of parenthood, the last verse verse reads                                                                                                                                                  Man hands on misery  to men,                                                                                                                  It deepens like a coastal shelf                                                                                                                    Get out as early as you can,                                                                                                                        And don't have any kids yourself.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      He had a terrible fear of  death, for him it was a close and a continual presence, horrific, a continual  naked dread.So wrote his friend in a book on his life. Dylan Thomas a Welsh poet wrote a poem which reads,                              Do not go gentle into that good night                                                                                                        Rage,rage against the dying of the night                                                     I knew a dear friend who raged against dying , and yes he was a Christian,but he did not want to die.Although death is inevitable, most people never mention it,I suppose there are many reasons why people rage against death .    But whatever the reason the most important thing is to be ready,yes to be ready ,for death is not the end of our existence, the bible speaks of after death the judgement ( Heb 9 v 27) Many people do not know why Christ died on the cross,He bore the judgement for our sins ,read Isaiah 53.Without that we would experience the wrath of God,we escape the wrath of God,the moment we trust Jesus to be our Saviour.