Thursday, May 9, 2002
Thursday, May 9, 2002
Keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ that leads to eternal life.
Jesus says to us in John 5.24, "Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes
him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from
death to life."
(Jude 1.21
NRSV)
Eternal life means "no beginning and no ending." It is eternally present. You can experience
heaven right now. Heaven is not a physical place. Our telescopes, no
matter how gigantic, will never discover it "out there." Heaven is a spiritual reality. Heaven is
any place that God is. Because of our humanness, our finiteness, our
sinfulness, we cannot experience it in this world in all of its glory. Nevertheless we can still go
ahead and step though its gates. That is what faith in Jesus Christ does
for us. We don't have to go to Him. He comes to us and will dwell within us. The excitement of
that kind of indwelling is a foretaste of that land where there is no
night.
Dear God, thank you for giving me eternal life with you, the Father of love. Amen.
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