O Death, Where is thy Sting?

Last Wednesday I was sitting next to Mike in English Composition class. I laughed at the jokes he whispered in the middle of class. Today, Mike wasn't sitting next to me anymore, but he was sitting next to Jesus, which is far better.

Today, while meditating on what happened, these verses kept popping to my mind:

"For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corithians 15:53-57)

I don't understand why things happen the way they do. I think none of us does, but one thing I know and that is that in Jesus we have hope and victory.