Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have
died.
Why do we believe in God? Because life is too precious to be wasted in these few years. If the
meaning of my life is finished when I've ended my brief pilgrimage here, then what was the good
of it? Says the Apostle Paul when they asked him that question, "If, for this life only, we hope in
God, then we are to be pitied more than all men!" But life is more than just this short race. And
we know it, because we believe in God, and we believe in the power of the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
(1 Corinthians 15.20
NRSV)
The saints of the Old Testament times are always on a quest! The meaning of our lives isn't in
the past or the present, but in the future, in the thing God is yet to do with us. Listen again,
"...they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth." People who say such things
show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they
had left, they would have had the opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better
country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has
prepared a city for them.
Dear God, thank you for creating me to be good and to have a purpose of being in your heavenly
dominion. Amen.
