Promoted to Glory. ( Philippians 1 v 23 )

 For all us death is inevitable that's an obvious thing to say ,we cant change it,for the bereaved it can be very painful,even though their loved has gone to heaven.My youngest son's father-in-law died recently,he was a Christian, he had suffered long with cancer.My son said although he was sad at his death he was no longer suffering and he had gone to a better place.William Barclay writing on Pauls words in Philippians 1 v23 ,'of having a desire to depart and be with Christ'.says,'The word for depart...is the word for striking camp, loosening the tent ropes,pulling up the tent pins and going on.It is said that in the terrible days of the war,when the Royal Air Force stood between this country and destruction,and when the lives of its pilots were been sacrificially spent, they never spoke of  a pilot as having been killed; they always spoke of him as having  been ''posted to another station''.Each day's march is a day's march nearer home.Death is a setting sail,a launching out into the deep, a departure on that voyage to the everlasting haven and to God. Heaven is that place where all earth's questions will be answered,where the torturing problems will find their solution, where the broken things will be mended and the lost things found, and where those who have waited will in the end understand'.The Salvation army  speaking about  of fellow salvationist when they die as being ,'promoted to glory'.