“Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6
The boy and girl in the attached photo and you and me have one thing in common. It doesn’t have anything to do with the plate of rice and beans sitting in front of them although that is what I am having for lunch today. We have all experienced birth and one day in our lives here in this fallen world, are going to end, but that’s not going to be the end of us. We’re going to live forever in one of two places: heaven or hell. Our bodies are going to die, but we’re not going to die; because we were made to last forever. How long? ALL the days of my life. Forever!
I listened to an Evangelist on the radio driving home on last week Sunday tell his listeners that we will never know how to really live until we’re ready to die. Only a fool would go through life totally unprepared for something that everybody knows is inevitable.
It’s a done deal that these Haitian kids and you and me are going to die someday. If you’ve invited Christ into your life, then you’re going to go to heaven for Eternity…forever. In heaven, each of us will be released from pain, sorrow, suffering, depression, and fear. For Christians, death is somewhat like a transfer, a promotion. It’s on to better things and no more problems.
Those truths should change everything for you! It doesn’t mean life is going to be easy. There are challenges all over this world. And it doesn’t mean you will always be happy here, or always know what you should do, or that you will never sin again. But it does mean you can face the future without fear. God has taken care of your biggest problem, your salvation. He is never going to leave you, and you will live with him forever!
Dear Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you,
Jay