“And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
John 11:26 KJV
The answer to that question is, “Yes, we
do.” We believe in the life everlasting. Jesus promised it at the grave of His
friend Lazarus and repeatedly elsewhere in His preaching. It is the promise of
one of the most widely known Scripture verses, John 3:16, which concludes
triumphantly, “But shall have everlasting life”. When we properly think of this truth, this
precious promise, we are forced to think of the relative insignificance of a
life that is briefly lived on earth.
Job calls this life a vapor. It is called a
spark flying upward and gone. There is a little plaque on my wall, there since
I was a small child. “Only one life ‘twill soon be passed, only what’s done for
Christ will last.” We try to gain and acquire all that we can in this world and
constantly forget that we cannot take it out of this world. If we live to be a
hundred it is only a speck in recorded history and an invisible dot on the
timeline of eternity. Believing in the life everlasting means more than just
future hope; it means living for eternity and not just today.
Almighty
God, Thank You for life everlasting and help me daily to live for it. Amen.
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