Can a person die before his appointed time to die?

How Can People Know Someone Dies Before Their Time?
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I’m sure many of us have heard the comment “they died before their time” when someone dies at what seems earlier than they should have. I felt that way when my cousin Derrick died as a infant. following an accident. Being a little young myself it simply didn’t seem fair. When children die we all feel a terrible injustice and our hearts break for parents that have to endure such a loss. But I wonder, how can people know someone dies before their time?

However long you live maybe it simply is your time. We don’t know when our time is, when it will end here on earth and most of our religious beliefs help us come to terms with death and how we can find peace with it. When a loved one dies we most often turn to our religious faith for answers, comfort and support. Faith can offer strength to us when our loved ones die, I know for me, my faith helped me walk the journey through grief.

Even with my faith holding me up, I wondered for years if I was missing out on life because I had stopped living? In time I discovered healing & inspiration was all around me and I failed to notice. When I finally opened to the world around me and took time to look around at the beauty that abounds even on my own back yard it lit a spark within me. The spark of life and love that was there all the time, I had to invite it back in.

What I have come to learn over the years since my cousin’s death is that no matter how terrible a death, it shouldn’t stop me from living. I also believe it was his chosen time to leave this earth and I’m now okay with that.

Sometimes it seems there are so many things we can’t control, but we can choose to live, laugh and love again which is my wish for anyone reading this post today.

Can a person die before his appointed time to die?

Not possible... Surprising God by cashing in your own chips? Can't happen--He knows who will take their own lives. He knows everything about you, from BEFORE you were formed in the womb, throughout all of your existence--including your future existence in Heaven--or should you choose--perdition!

However, the complete answer is quite complicated. If you live your life in the best way humanly possible, then your "string" will not play out prematurely. You will live as long as God engineered you to live.

If you live recklessly... Disregard health laws... Disregard other aspects of God's law, then you will not maximize yourself... You will die too soon--but that possibility will be known to God. Thus, living recklessly, you will die at a time you basically appoint yourself--though drug using shortened lives, heavy smokers, unhealthy practices compounded on unhealthy practices probably will not give you the exact time of your death--unless you linger with a terminal illness that could have been prevented by living properly. Doctors are often very good at telling you how long you will last--when you have abused your body terribly.

But any of these possibilities would be completely known to God...

In fact, He knows everything--absolutely everything--about you! He knows if you follow his laws, you will live as long as your DNA will allow. And God knows when that will be. If you live inappropriately, disregard God's truth, you will greatly cut down your lifespan. But God still knows when you will die--and in this latter scenario--how far short you will have crafted your life to be from what He made possible for you.

In fact, living a tragically uncontrolled life--like that of an illicit drug
user is actually suicide--on the installment plan!

Now, let's look at the Bible...

"You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous - how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.
They cannot be numbered!
I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!" (Psalm 139:13-18) NLT.

Man has a sovereignly appointed time to die. No man can cut this short or lengthen it. God is sovereign period. Man only has a "free will" when it lines up with God's path. God has written the story of every human being and all we have the power to do is walk it. When we die we die because God stopped the heart beat. We cannot change this. Jesus Himself was very clear on this when He said no man can add one day to his life through his own efforts. The opposite is also true that no man can shorten his life through any effort.

The Bible also tells us we all have a day and time where we will run out of time.

If this isn't true, then God is not sovereign. If God is God, and He is onmipotent, omniscient and omnipresent then He is in control and has the power. We are His vessels and He decides what to do with us.

To justify man being able to cut his life short doesn't fly either. We are told in various places that the wicked's days will be cut short but the ones who obey God's commands will enjoy a long life. Now who is in control here? Man or God? Of course God is, and He is in control of shortening someone's life or lengthening it. So in light of this, He is still appointing a certain time for someone to die.

This doesn't give us the license to go out and be foolish, but it makes us accountable to be obedient to God, and in doing so, He will honor us with a long life.