Devotional Guide For the week of April 13, 2008
ETERNAL LIFE IS REALLY REAL
About living for the moment
To read the Bible in one year, today read Psalms 43-45
To Know:
³For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a
building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.²
(2
Cor. 5:1)
Eternity is in us. Unlike the beasts of the field, we remember the
departed.
Graveyards exist in every place where men have lived on the earth.
Engraved
stones stand in silent testimony to the fact that we humans crave life and
will not let death erase the memory of those whom we love. The craving for
eternal life is a hunger in our hearts.
Will our hunger for eternity an appetite remain eternally unsatisfied? The
Bible answers no. Jesus Christ is eternal life. He gives this life to all
those who give themselves to him. The Savior himself bore witness to this
immortal fact. He gave visible testimony to the reality of eternal life by
the works that he performed. Christ¹s greatest work was accomplished by
his
death. On the cross, Christ abolished death and brought life and
immortality
to light in the gospel. From his grave, Christ reentered the world; never
to
die again. Through his death and resurrection, Jesus became the
everlasting
man.
To Do:
When Jesus was with us during the days of his flesh, he was aware that his
actions would have consequences beyond the grave. We who are ³in Christ²
ought to contemplate our lives in the light of a never-ending future.
Eternal life is meant to influence all that we do and think today. Let us
discipline ourselves to ask always, ³What should I do differently, if I
know
that my life will now never end?²
To Ask:
Father, protect me from the temptation to live only for the moment.
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