Psalm 111:4 (ESV) - “He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and merciful.”

The Lord has been faithful to my generation, sending prophetic, priestly, and kingly fathers in the faith to increase faith and understanding, and to spur on the good works of the church. And then he brings them home. And suddenly we are holding a torch that we didn’t realize it was our turn to hold, and we are called deeper into dependence on our perfect Father, as he takes from us our earthly fathers in the faith.

Suggesting that lost lives should be honored in proportion to their deeds is a devastating proposal that rejects the intrinsic value of human life and the tragedy of sin and death for all people.

No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.

Micah 6:8 (ESV)

He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?