TRUTH#5 PROMISE (SUCCUMBED AND THE SURVIVING)

 

TRUTH#5 PROMISE

1 Jn_2:25  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

What the succumbed have atttained, the survivor should hold on. 

Human mind, from time immemorial, has always tried to understand and define things on a temporal or time-based scale.   For a man a day has 24 hours, a week 7 days, a month 30 days, and an year 365 days.  To him everything is finite. 

Even  his grandparents, his parents will be there for a period and will be gone.  What he sees in tombstones is a name or a picture of someone with birth date and death date inscribed?  He does not know anything that does not come under the confines of time and space. When one says eternal, everlasting, ever living it is something which his intellect fails to understand, imagine or accept.

Living forever.  Yes, it may be sound incredible, but it is true.  It is the greatest gift of God to human life.  Living forever in human body is not what God meant.  It would be impossible and impracticable as the body is prone for destruction. Then what is that?  

St.Francis of Assisi quotes, 'It is in dying that we are born to eternal life'

Corrie Ten Doom Says,  'You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.'

A born again believer may live for 20, 40, 60 and even 100 years.  But in the eternal perspective they count as nothing.   To him, life actually begins in death.  A Life with God.  A life in a place where is no tear, no pain, no disease, no weakness.  Some may say, there is nothing called heaven. That is because of their finite thinking.  But we have this PROMISE, we are called to hold on to it.   As believers, we are called to eternally minded.

Eternal life is  Gift of Christ (Romans 6:23)

Eternal life is Guarded by Christ (John 10:28)

Eternal life is  Groomed in Christ (Jud 1:21)

This eternal life is not something we will gain after our death, it is something that we carry with us.  It is something that we are supposed to hold onto.

To hold to to what?  Hold on to JESUS, that is it.

(Ends tomorrow)